Editing Absurdist fiction (section)

===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>