Editing Absurdist fiction (section)

==Examples==
Examples of absurdist fiction writers include:
* [[John Swartzwelder]]
* [[Edward Albee]]
* [[Samuel Beckett]] (e.g., ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'', ''[[The Unnamable (novel)|The Unnamable]]'')
* [[Albert Camus]]
* [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]
* [[Jean Genet]] (e.g., ''[[The Maids]]'')
* [[Nikolai Gogol]]
* [[James Kelman]] (e.g., ''[[How Late It Was, How Late]]'')
* [[Franz Kafka]] (e.g., ''[[The Metamorphosis]]'', ''[[The Trial (novel)|The Trial]]'', ''[[The Castle (novel)|The Castle]]'')
* [[Haruki Murakami]]
* [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Cromwell|first=Neil|title=The Absurd in Literature|pages=2–3, 45, 186–7|year=2006|publisher=Manchester University Press}}</ref>
* [[Philip K. Dick]] (e.g., ''[[A Scanner Darkly]]'')
* [[Maccio Capatonda]]
* [[Kurt Vonnegut]]
* [[Kōbō Abe]]
* [[Daniil Kharms]]
* [[Osamu Dazai]]
* [[Boris Vian]] (e.g., ''[[Froth on the Daydream]]'')
* [[Terry Pratchett]] (e.g., [[Discworld]])
*[[Grant Morrison]] (e.g., [[Doom Patrol]])

Individual absurdist works include:
* [[Dino Buzzati]]'s ''[[The Tartar Steppe]]''
* [[Ralph Ellison]]'s ''[[Invisible Man]]''
* [[Muriel Spark]]'s ''[[The Driver's Seat (novel)|The Driver's Seat]]'' and ''[[The Hothouse by the East River]]''
* [[Edward Albee]]'s ''[[Seascape (play)|Seascape]]'' and ''[[The American Dream (play)|The American Dream]]''
* [[Joseph Heller]]'s ''[[Catch-22]]''
* [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s ''[[V.]]'' and ''[[The Crying of Lot 49]]''
* [[John Irving]]'s ''[[The World According to Garp]]''
* [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]''
* Plays by [[Eugène Ionesco]] (e.g., ''[[The Bald Soprano]]''; ''[[The Lesson]]'', etc.)
* Some early plays of [[Harold Pinter]]
* Some works by [[Tom Stoppard]] (e.g., ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]'')<ref>{{cite book|last1=Abrams|first1=M. H.|last2=Harpham|first2=Geoffrey|title=A Glossary of Literary Terms|section=Literature of the Absurd|pages=2–3|year=2013|publisher=Cengage Learning}}</ref> 
* [[Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin]]'s ''[[Scenes from the Past|Tarelkin's Death]]'' 
* Witold Gombrowicz's ''[[Cosmos (Gombrowicz novel)|Cosmos]]''
* [[Netflix]] TV series ''[[BoJack Horseman]]''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mikethewriter.com/blogs/editorials/the-resurgence-of-absurdism-animation-and-the-neo-absurdist-movement | title=The Resurgence of Absurdism: Animation and the Neo-Absurdist Movement }}</ref>
* [[Lars von Trier]]'s ''[[The Kingdom (miniseries)|Riget]]''
* [[Brian Patrick Butler]]'s ''[[Friend of the World]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://filmthreat.com/reviews/friend-of-the-world/|title=The surrealistic Friend of the World works more like a stage play than a film|last=Rector |first=Rob |date=2020 |access-date=12 September 2021}}</ref>
* [[Noah Baumbach]]'s ''[[White Noise (2022 film)|White Noise]]''
* [[Adhik Ravichandran]]'s ''[[Good Bad Ugly]]

Examples of notable absurdist filmmakers include:
* [[Ingmar Bergman]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://learningandcreativity.com/silhouette/absurdist-themes-virgin-spring/ |title=Absurdist Themes In The Virgin Spring |last=Riddhiman |first=Basu |date=15 July 2011 |access-date=4 July 2016}}</ref>
* [[Luis Buñuel]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pendientedemigracion.ucm.es/info/especulo/numero20/bunuel2.html |title=Luis Buñuel, Existential Filmmaker |last=Santander |first=Hugo N. |date=2002 |access-date=4 July 2016 |archive-date=2 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502013523/http://pendientedemigracion.ucm.es/info/especulo/numero20/bunuel2.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Daniels (directors)|Daniels]] (e.g., ''[[Swiss Army Man]]'' and ''[[Everything Everywhere All at Once]]'')
*[[Werner Herzog]]
*[[Harmony Korine]]
* [[Coen brothers]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Conrad |first=Mark T. |date=1 March 2009 |title=The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-3869-5}}</ref>
*[[Charlie Kaufman]]
* [[Yorgos Lanthimos]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/dec/09/yorgos-lanthimos-the-favourite-interview?CMP=share_btn_tw|title=Yorgos Lanthimos, director of The Lobster, on his wild, star-studded life of Queen Anne |last=Romney |first=Jonathan |website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |date=2018 |access-date=9 December 2018}}</ref>
*[[David Lynch]]
*[[Roman Polanski]] (e.g., ''[[Knife in the Water]]'', ''[[Repulsion (film)|Repulsion]]'', ''[[Cul-de-sac (1966 film)|Cul-de-sac]]'', ''[[Carnage (2011 film)|Carnage]]'', etc.)
*[[Tim Heidecker]] and [[Eric Wareheim]]
*[[Quentin Dupieux]]

===Characteristics and techniques===
Albert Camus' ''[[The Myth of Sisyphus]]'' (1942) extracts from the Greek [[fable]] of a man forced to continuously roll a rock up a mountain only for it to roll back down the mountain due to its own weight, a dilemma that lasts for [[eternity]]. Camus elucidates his own [[symbolism (arts)|symbolism]] as a representation of the human condition in a world where we face the universal difficulty of making sense of events; however instead of turning to suicide that we must reconcile with the "elusive feeling of absurdity" and endure it to the best of our abilities.<ref name="Dickson, A.">Dickson, A., 2020. Nonsense Talk: Theatre Of The Absurd. [online] The British Library.</ref> Franz Kafka's ''[[The Trial]]'' (1925) follows the tale of Josef K., a man who is arrested and prosecuted by an authority that is remote and inaccessible; both him and the reader are not told the nature of his crime or why he was prosecuted. Kafka uses restrained prose throughout the novel to add dramatic irony<ref>Winterhalter, B., 2019. Franz Kafka's The Trial—It's Funny Because It's True | JSTOR Daily.</ref> as well as the illogical and inconsistent line of events of the arrest and court case of Joseph K. Kafka's novel can be perceived to imply a gap in the rational world as a result of hyper-rationalization consuming society, an example highlighted by Kafka being the [[judiciary]]. Kafka employs erroneous [[alliteration]] and literary manipulation to compose a nonsensical, [[Existentialism|existentialist]] novel that exemplifies the inhumanity, alienation and absurdity persisting in the modern world alongside the impacts of [[totalitarianism]], [[injustice]] and [[bureaucracy]] as a whole.<ref>Robertson, R. (2015). Carefully constructed: The language of Franz Kafka | OUPblog.</ref>