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Les Shadoks. Fiction of the Absurd. Other Authors This page is not intended to be a complete survey of absurdist fiction, only to pay homage to a few select authors. Along with the better-known playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd, the most notable omission here is Samuel Beckett. Others include Jean Genet, Jean-Paul Sartre and André Gide. For Raymond Roussel and other precursors of Surrealism and the theatre of the absurd, see my Surrealist Writers page. Additional precursors of absurdist fiction include: Voltaire's (Candide), Nietzsche, Dostoyevski and the Biblical Ecclesiastes. Related but distinct is the Nonsense movement typified by Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. Examples of contemporary absurdist fiction include Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and the work of Julio Cortázar, John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, Richard Brautigan, Donald Barthelme and Walter Abish.

Current efforts to continue the Absurdist Fiction tradition include the New Absurdist Movement, online at amr.obook.org. Monty Pythons. Rumba (2008) Les Dingues du nonsense de Lewis Carroll à Woody Allen: Amazon.fr: Robert Benayoun. Nonsense. Chroniques sur absurdité société faits absurdes, satire ironie critique sociale chronique humoristique actualité L'Iceberg (2005)