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Anything from the mid-20th century onwards. Read Kafka, read a few other things, now I want something new. Also please provide a brief description.

>> No.2111231

"Eeeee eee eeee" by Tao Lin
it is an in-depth examination of modern american life

>> No.2111243

L'Etranger, or The Stranger by Albert Camus. I would recommend Kafka, but it appears you've beaten me to it.

>> No.2111250

Kafka's short stories >>>> The Trial, The Castle

>> No.2111254

>>2111250

Are there collections of these stories available? I have read the Trial and liked it and have some other stuff by him lying around and want to read it, but I would also be tempted to read some short stroies.

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no

>> No.2111267

Slaughterhouse-Five or Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. It's a more American style of absurdism, but it's absurdist nonetheless

>> No.2111272

>>2111254
I'm sure there is. Get an edition with In the Penal Colony and the short stories he published while he was alive (ie. the ones he considered worth publishing).

>> No.2111276

Catch-22 also gets my vote.

>> No.2111523

>>2111267

I had never thought of them as absurdism, although I've read both. I suppose fatalism, as shown in the books, is kind of absurd. And the killing spree in BOC is absurd, too.

>> No.2111533

>>2111523
you want to know what's absurd? your absurd. how about that for absurd, huh huh.. herp derp

>> No.2111538

>>2111533

Deep thoughts on /lit/, as usual.

Lololol. Derp.

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>mfw everytime we have these thread nobody mentions the theatre of the absurd or tristan tzara
if you want to be hardcore pick up the ones that are hardcore: ionesco, albee, durrenmatt etc

>> No.2111565

>>2111543

O yeah, well fuck your shit.

>Nouveau Roman
>Michel Butor
>Nathalie Sarraute
>Marguerite Duras
>Alain Robbe-Grillet

>> No.2111580

Go for bret eston ellis

>> No.2111775

>>2111580

Wouldn't call BEE absurdist, though the last half of American Psycho and pretty much all of Glamorama come closest.

>> No.2111780

>>2111580
He said he wanted absurdist novels, not things that'll turn him pink gay.

>> No.2111781

beckett's molloy

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insane book here