Fiction of the Absurd (1980) [Anthology]
by Ingeborg Bachmann Samuel Beckett Albert Camus Nikolai Gogol Witold Gombrowicz Joseph Heller Eugène Ionesco Franz Kafka Daniil Kharms Tommaso Landolfi Vladimir Nabokov Flann O'Brien Juan Carlos Onetti Voltaire
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Contents:
- The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
- The Cashier by Daniil Kharms
- The Old Woman by Daniil Kharms
- Conversation with the Supplicant by Franz Kafka
- Before the Law by Franz Kafka
- A Dream by Franze Kafka
- The Visit to the Museum by Vladimir Nabokov
- John Duffy's Brother by Flann O'Brien
- excerpts from Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz
- First Love by Samuel Beckett
- Oriflamme by Eugene Ionesco
- Gogol's Wife by Tommaso Landolfi
- A Dream Come True by Juan Carlos Onetti
- excerpts from Candide by Voltaire
- "The Soldier Who Saw Everything Twice" (excerpt from Catch-22) by Joseph Heller
- A Place for Coincidences by Ingeborg Bachmann
- The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Original title: Fiction of the Absurd: Pratfalls in the Void
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Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction→ Literary Fiction/classics
The following works are contained within this one:
Nose, the (1836) [Novelette]
Author: Nikolai Gogol
Before the Law (1916) [Short Story]
Author: Franz Kafka
Dream, a (1917) [Short Story]
Author: Franz Kafka
Visit to the Museum, the (1939) [Short Story]
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
First Love (1970) [Novelette]
Author: Samuel Beckett
This work contains excerpts from the following works :
Candide (1759) [Novel]
Author: Voltaire
Catch-22 (1961) [Novel]
Author: Joseph Heller
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