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Apocalyptic Collapse and the Absurd in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle

Caliban: French Journal of English Studies, 2020
This article analyzes the way Kurt Vonnegut develops an aesthetics of the grotesque to examine the irresistible attraction humankind feels for self-destruction.
Ruth Fialho
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Absurdalizacja rzeczywistości jako chwyt w twórczości Wieniedikta Jerofiejewa

Forum Wschodnie, 2023
This essay analyses “the absurdity of reality” as a literary technique in selected excerpts from the works of Venedikt Yerofeyev. “Absurdity” is more than distinctive style in Yerofeyev.
Jakub Adamiak
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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, or the promise of “something further”

Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2019
Initially criticized for its generic confusion and singular narrative choices, Herman Melville’s The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857) was rehabilitated by twentieth-century critics who praised its modernity. By staging a trip on the Mississippi, the
Thomas Velasquez
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After All, 'Tutti Spinaceto!' Adrift, on Nanni Moretti’s Back

Histories of Postwar Architecture
The portrayal of the city traversed on a scooter (sulla Vespa! – noblesse oblige), emerging from Nanni Moretti’s cinematic imagination, positions itself as a “motorised” device for a Situationist dérive. Beneath the apparent guise of erratic, solipsistic
Daniel Maurício Santos de Jesus
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Sentence prononcée contre P. et J., de Agustín Gómez-Arcos

Recherches
In this article, Carlos Vicente Domínguez, presents the results of a brief semiotic analysis of the absurdist farce Sentence prononcée contre P. et J. (1970), an exilic work by Agustín Gómez-Arcos that has not been performed until now.
Carlos Vicente Domínguez
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The Experiment of Rebelling in Beckett: The Impact of Camus and Havel [PDF]

Polish Journal of English Studies, 2018
The infinite and useless struggles of Camus’s Sisyphus have long informed discussions of the philosophy and theatre of the absurd. In the Greek myth, which Camus reductively appropriates, Sisyphus relentlessly repeats his efforts to roll the rock up the ...
Ivan Nyusztay
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The paradox of death and the Theatre of the Absurd

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Historicolitteraria, 2019
The aim of the article is the presentation of some interesting and stimulating questions connected with the problem of eschatological codes in the Theatre of the Absurd.
Dariusz Piotr Klimczak
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LONELINESS AND LACK OF COMMUNICATION IN ABSURD PLAYS

Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, 2023
Loneliness and lack of communication are common themes in absurd drama. This paper explores the portrayal of loneliness and lack of communication in absurd drama through an analysis of selected works of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Eugène Ionesco ...
Jihad Jaafar Waham
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Function of the Absurd in the Speech Sphere of Characters (Vladimir Sorokin Голубое сало)

Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne, 2020
This work is devoted to violations in the speech sphere of the characters in the novel Голубое сало by Vladimir Sorokin. The characters of the novel suff er from mental disorders, which are manifested in their letters and dialogues. V.
Ботагоз Байжигит
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Tamed hell or topology of evil in early fiction by Miodrag Bulatović [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2019
This paper on the early fiction written by Miodrag Bulatović (his so-called homeland fiction) aims to analyse and show that the writer's insistence on representation of evil among people, in almost all of its forms, is not a goal in its own right, as is ...
Lazić Nebojša J.
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