The Absurd in Literature

PART 1: Introductory 1. The Theoretical Absurd: An Introduction 2. Antecedents to the Absurd PART 2: Growth of the Absurd 3. The Twentieth Century: towards the absurd 4. Around the Absurd I: Twentieth-Century Absurdist Practice 5. Around the Absurd II: The Theatre of the Absurd PART 3: Special Authors 6. Daniil Kharms as Minimalist-Absurdist 7. Franz Kafka: Otherness in the Labyrinth of Absurdity 8. Samuel Beckett's Vessels, Voices and Shades of the Absurd 9. Flann O'Brien and the Purloined Absurd IN CONCLUSION 10. Beyond the Absurd? Conclusion -- .