Theater of the Absurd

The Theater of the Absurd refers to revolutionary tendencies in dramatic literature that emerged in Paris during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

The plays of Arthur Adamov, Fernando Arrabal, and Samuel Beckett are all strong parts of the Theater of the Absurd. Its roots as a movement can be found in the nonsense literature of writers like Lewis Carroll, the dream plays of Strindberg, and the dream novels of James Joyce. Its direct forerunners were the Dada movement and the following Surrealism of the 1920s and 1930s.

The term Theater of the Absurd derives from the philosophical use of the word absurd by such existentialist thinkers as Albert Camus. Camus argued that humanity had to resign itself to recognizing that a fully satisfying rational explanation of the universe was beyond its reach; in that sense, the world must ultimately be seen as absurd.

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