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I was reading the wikipedia page on absurdist fiction. It listed Kurt Vonnegut (an author I enjoy) and Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (one of my favorite movies). Now, I haven't read the other books they listed, but I'd like to get some recommendations from /lit/. It would be nice if there was a short story anthology (in case I like only those works I mentioned, and not the genre as a whole) but I will look into any suggestions you provide. Thanks!

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>>11321120
Check out Samuel Beckett's plays. Waiting for Godot is a masterpiece of absurdism.

>> No.11321191

Camus and Kafka

>> No.11321209

Myth of Sisyphus (don't know how it's spelt in english so forgive me if it's wrong), Stranger by Camus

>> No.11321330

Marabou Stork Nightmares

>> No.11321359

>>11321138

wtf thats the cutest pic of beckett ive ever seen

>>11321209

thats correct foreignanon, well done! i would have loved you anyone even if you made a mistake <3

>> No.11321380

>>11321359
anyway* haha, see, i can make mistakes too!

>> No.11321407

>>11321380
everyone makes mistakes, correcting them is what matters
love you too haha <3

>> No.11321545

>>11321120
If Vonnegut is your jumping off point for absurdism, I don’t know if you really want to go any deeper. Beckett and other absurdist playwrights are going to be a whole lot different than something like Strangelove or Slaughterhouse five. I would start with Myth of Sisyphus like the other anon said. Martin Esslin has a great book called the Theater of the Absurd which makes for a great study in absurdism. I would say that’s going to be your best reference.

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Giselle Prassinos (pic related) is interesting--she was kind of an Alice figure for the absurdist movement, and published her first short stories at like 15. I've only read snippets of The Arthritic Grasshopper but they're amusing.

Flan by Stephen Tunney is contemporary absurdist horror. An apocalypse occurs that basically makes the world a nightmare; a man named Flan and his talking goldfish named Ginger Kang Kang try to survive. Features plentiful gore, body horror, sexual abuse, and none of it makes any fucking sense.

>> No.11322924

>>11321120
Behead All Satans
The Tainted Turd
How to BOMB the U.S. Gov't
The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs
Faster Than the Speed of Love
Wish It, Want It, Do It