Absurdist fiction is a genre of fictional narrative (traditionally, literary fiction), most often in the form of a novel, play, poem, or film, that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value.
The critic Augst Nemo selected seven short stories of the absurd for his appreciation:
– A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka
– In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
– Before the Law by Franz Kafka
– Ex Oblivione by H. P. Lovecraft
– Andrey Semyonovich by Daniil Kharms
– A sonnet by Daniil Kharms
– Symphony no. 2 by Daniil Kharms
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Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 March 15, 1937) was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame after his works of weird fiction were rediscovered.
Daniil Kharms (30 December 1905 2 February 1942) was an early Soviet-era avant-gardist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist.
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