Talk:Absurdist fiction

message: Is Absurdist fiction specific to books or does it include Music, Movies, and TV also? --Mjbauer95 (talk) 04:48, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it just for books? 

message: Someone removed it from the list but I added it back because I saw a link to Absurdist fiction on the A Series of Unfortunate Events Page. --Mjbauer95 (talk) 04:53, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is [[A Series of Unfortunate Events]] considered Absurdist Fiction? 

message: *I am unsure if there should be a distinction made between absurdist fiction and surrealist fiction, when the two concepts seem to be merged into one article here. I realize the two may overlap, like almost any of the many genres of ficiton, but my understanding of the difference between the two is as follows. Surrealist fiction might be called "absurd fiction" only because it involves bizareness or meaninglessness in literary ways (such as absurd situations, nonsense, non-sequiturs in plot and characters' logic, etc.). What the term "absurdist fiction" however may exclusively denote is fiction that falls under the particular philosophy of absurdism. While surrealist fiction employs absurdity (a quality of being nonsensical), absurdist fiction employs absurdism (a very specific philosophical school of thought). A good example of surrealist fiction (that I feel is purely literary nonsense rather than absurdist fiction) is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; in this novel, there are not many obvious absurdist elements, but there are obvious absurd (and surrealist) elements. A good example of absurdist fiction (without being surrealist) is The Stranger; in this novel, nothing literally nonsensical occurs, however, the protagonist does explore the philosophy of absurdism. Are "surrealist" and "absurdist" really deemed synonymous within the realm of fiction? At the very least, the two originate from different foundations (one the surrealist art movement and the other the absurdist philosophical movement). I think the main argument is that there can be, in fact, a difference between the words "absurd" and "absurdist." Wolfdog (talk) 01:51, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Absurdist vs. surrealist fiction 

message: I think some of the examples (Kafka, Gogol) predate the absurdist philosophical/literary movement and their inclusion is a kind of historical revisionism, the same kind of revisionism that calls Hamlet an existentialist work, to lend authority to the movement.  I removed Kafka and Gogol from the list, but their inclusion now makes me doubt the veracity of the rest of the items listed.  Does someone have citations for any of the works listed?  There's a difference between "works that feature strange or absurd events" and "works of absurdist fiction", and I'm concerned that the list contains the former rather than the latter. Augurar (talk) 17:41, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spurious examples 

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message: I'm not sure if this was intentional, but I like how the image in this article can also be interpreted as an absurdist statement. On my computer screen, it just shows up as a squashed blank white thing. An absurdist image on an article related to absurdism. Very nice touch.
鄭予愷 (talk) 03:04, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image in this Article