Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Neil Cornwell is Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol

Reviews

"'I believe that with such a survey, Cornwell's book will be the new standard published volume on the absurd.' Professor Richard J. Lane"