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Rahim, Sifatur. "Absurd (anti)Heroes’ Journey toward Happiness: A Psychoanalytic Comparison between Arthur Fleck and Meursault." Spectrum 17 (November 30, 2023): 101–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/spectrum.v17i1.69005.

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In his philosophical writing, The Myth of Sisyphus (1979), Albert Camus ponders the futility of the search for unity and absolute in this seemingly indifferent universe, and surmises that true happiness comes from accepting the meaninglessness of human existence. This particular school of thought is known as absurdism, and the narratives that fall under this discipline are referred to as absurdist texts. Camus not only expounds on the scopes of absurdism but also puts them into practice through his fiction. One such seminal absurdist novel by Camus is The Outsider (1987). In the novel, the writer delineates how the protagonist, Meursault, finds contentment by accepting his fate. A similar state of happiness is attained by Arthur Fleck, the protagonist of the film Joker (2019), when he accepts and assumes his proper place in society. From the onset, Fleck and Meursault may appear quite different from each other. However, upon closer inspection, the subtle similarities in their characteristics are perceptible, which bind them to a common threat of absurdity. It is undeniable that both Fleck and Meursault have committed homicide. Nonetheless, there is a greater force behind their acts than free will, and that is their unconscious drive. This paper explores the workings of the unconscious and its manifestation in Fleck and Meursault’s actions while explicitly commenting on the relationships with their respective mothers. This comparative study also highlights how both of them discover true happiness once they finally learn to accept their fate and reality. Spectrum, Volume 17, June 2022: 101-113

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Rasheed, Nausheen, Mamona Yasmin Khan, and Shaheen Rasheed. "Philosophical Exploration of Absurdism and Existentialism: A Comparative Study of Kafka's Work The Metamorphosis and The Trial." Global Social Sciences Review VI, no. II (June 30, 2021): 94–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2021(vi-ii).10.

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The philosophical stance about the existence of being and the meaning of life has been a widely discussed subject among philosophers and critics. Existentialism says that a man can construct his own meaning of life by making judicious use of his awareness, free wills and personal responsibilities, but absurdism believes that there is no meaning of life out there. The focus of this study is to explore the absurdist and existential aspects in Kafka's fiction The Metamorphosis (1915) and The Trial (1925). This is qualitative comparative research, and the data which have been collected for this purpose is through purposive sampling techniques. In this study, Camus' theory of absurdism and theory of existentialism has been adopted as a theoretical framework. The study explores in what ways the traces of absurdism and existentialism are present in Kafka's fiction The Metamorphosis and The Trial. The findings show that characteristics of absurdism and existentialism are found in both the works of Kafka and are comparable with each other. For future recommendations, a comparative stylistic analysis of these selected novels can be carried out.

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Shafi, Uzma. "Postmodernist Literary Movement: A Comprehensive Study of Technique in Vonnegut’s Novels." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 2, no. 4 (2017): 203–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.2.4.24.

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Kurt Vonnegut is an integral part of the postmodernist literary movement and a master of satire, gallows humor, and science fiction. The uniqueness of Vonnegut's works is that in addition to having excellent themes, the novels are also technically accomplished and colorful. Vonnegut refuses to confine himself to a single form of fiction, which is something that is certainly clear from a review of his books. In reality, modal diversity is demonstrated in each of his works. Vonnegut, a man of profound vision, tries to experiment with brilliant techniques in his novels, including science fiction, comic science fiction, black humor, dark humor, morbid humor, gallows humor, meta-fiction, satire, political satire, postmodernism, dark comedy, war novels, absurdist fiction, modes of absurdity, and semi-autobiographical writing. In his works, he deftly weaves these strategies around his theme. He draws attention to the numerous social defects, the atrocities of war, and the sorrows of modern man. He imagines a society free of societal ills, where people are not enslaved by technology. This essay aims to analyze the literary devices used by Vonnegut in his works.

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Nawaz, Arshad, Muhammad Ijaz, and Khalid Mehmood Anjum. "Postmodern Absurdist Critique of Julian Barnes’s The Only Story." Global Language Review VI, no. II (June 30, 2021): 94–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(vi-ii).11.

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This research paper endeavors to examine the postmodern absurdism as a literary sub genre in postmodern fiction. It delves deep into the concept of absurdism by concentrating upon the characteristics that distinguish it as a postmodern sub genre. Through the analysis of the postmodern novel, The Only Story (2018), this research paper illustrates how the characteristics of absurdism haven impact upon a postmodern society characterized by boredom, meaninglessness, futility, and confusion. It also highlights how different characters, events, and places have been portrayed in the novel to depict the absurdity of human existence. The theoretical paradigm of the research is based upon Thomas Nagel’s Essay “The Absurd” which is about postmodern space of absurdism and was presented in the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division. The study limelight's how the absurd occurrences and bizarre characters found in the researcher's primary text depict the complexity of the postmodern absurd world in both literal and metaphoric dimensions.

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Massaad, Dr Madoline. "The Intersection of Reality and Fiction in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: A Study of Absurdity and Metadrama." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 9, no. 3 (2024): 251–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.93.31.

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The article titled "The Intersection of Reality and Fiction in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: A Study of Absurdity and Metadrama" explores how Tom Stoppard's play transforms the minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet into central figures within an absurdist framework. This study examines the play’s themes of human identity, confusion, and helplessness, common in the Theatre of the Absurd, using postmodernist metadramatic techniques. By employing metadrama, Stoppard highlights the blurred lines between reality and fiction, as seen in the characters' struggles to understand their existence within the play. The paper delves into the philosophical implications of absurdity, drawing on the ideas of Albert Camus and other theorists to illustrate how Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead reflects the chaotic and purposeless nature of human life. Through various metadramatic devices like the play within a play, role-playing, and the breakdown of conventional narrative structures, Stoppard's work is analyzed as a profound commentary on the human condition and the search for meaning in an incomprehensible world.

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Pérez, Vincent. "The Fourth Reich: Ishmael's Reed's The Terrible Twos and the Triumph of Celebrity Culture." Popular Culture Review 28, no. 2 (December 2017): 4–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.2831-865x.2017.tb00328.x.

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AbstractDonald Trump's rise to the U.S. presidency was foretold in many 20th century works of dystopian fiction as well as Western Marxist scholarship written during and after the Nazi era. The most prescient modern dystopian novel, Ishmael Reed's The Terrible Twos (1982), has much in common thematically with earlier American dystopian fiction while also sharing the bleak vision of U.S. mass (media) culture postulated by Frankfurt School theorists such as Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer in The Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947). But Reed's novel diverges dramatically from these earlier writings, whether fictive or scholarly, through its farcical and absurdist postmodernist depiction of a future neo‐fascist America in which popular (media) culture reigns triumphant even as spaces of resistance take shape amid the seemingly overdetermined ideological and cultural landscape.

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Ōmori, Kyōko. "Narrating the detective:nansensu, silent filmbenshiperformances and Tokugawa Musei's absurdist detective fiction." Japan Forum 21, no. 1 (May 8, 2009): 75–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09555800902857070.

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Ponomareva, Anastasiia. "Absurdist Fiction in the Focus of Philosophy: Máirtín Ó Cadhain and his Novel "The Dirty Dust"." Философская мысль, no. 12 (December 2022): 42–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8728.2022.12.38927.

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The subject of the study is the phenomenon of the absurd in Irish fiction and its relation to philosophical discourse. Absurdist fiction is proposed to be analyzed from the point of view of the philosophical meanings embedded in it. Most often, this is the interpretation of the absurd as a concept meaning a person's discord with the world. The novel by the Irish writer Ó Cadhain is considered as representing the absurdity of the human existence. In the analysis of the novel, the methods of modern cultural knowledge were used: the description of various sociocultural trends and phenomena, their theoretical generalization. The purpose of the work is to clarify the meaning of the absurd for the constitution of human existence. The article explores the connection of the realities present in the novel with the philosophy of traditionalism. The absurd is investigated as an indicator of the "silencing" of meaning. The factors that bring together the views of modernists who wrote about the absurd and the traditionalist doctrine are: fixation of the destruction of the habitual way of life, self-integrity, perversion or disappearance of the hierarchical social order, substitution of values, a direct indication of the "end of time" (eschatology). Changes in speech almost always act as an indicator of the heroes losing their own identity. With the help of this indicator, as a rule, loss of connection with Another, global alienation and dehumanization of a human being are recorded. Thus, the importance of the category of the absurd for fundamental philosophical ontology is proved.

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Weber, Stephanie. "Gender, Race, Color, Glass: A Reading of Clothing and Decoration in Paul Scheerbart’s Glass Utopias." Utopian Studies 33, no. 3 (November 2022): 424–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.33.3.0424.

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ABSTRACT This article revisits the utopian fiction of German science-fiction writer and poet Paul Scheerbart, considering the place of race and gender in his fantastical glass architectural spaces. This is primarily done through a reading of clothing and decoration in these texts, elements that are often explicitly mentioned in relation to women and people of color. Historical context concerning modernist paradigms, metaphorical interpretations of architectural glass, the connection between clothing and architecture, and the place of women in the Werkbund provides a framework that serves to extrapolate the significance of some of Scheerbart’s narrative elements, demonstrating the ways Scheerbart’s philosophies both aligned with and departed from the modernist trends that were gaining force during his career. His constant self-contradiction, humor, and absurdist plots, however, undermine any notion that Scheerbart’s fiction should be understood as straightforward polemics, and serve to complicate his position within the philosophical traditions he has been aligned with.

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Romero-Reche, Alejandro. "Avant-garde humour as ideological supplement." European Journal of Humour Research 10, no. 3 (October 11, 2022): 39–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.3.663.

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In 1939, when the Spanish civil war had recently ended, avant-garde humorists Miguel Mihura and Tono published an absurdist propaganda ‘novel’, María de la Hoz [María of the Sickle], about the republican zone during the conflict. Unlike other Francoist propaganda pieces of the time, it did not focus on the violence or the alleged moral degeneracy of the ‘reds’ but rather on what its authors perceived as the absurdity of egalitarianism and the progressive ideals. The novel, while not contradicting the emerging official ideology, conspicuously overlooked some of its key tenets, particularly those related to nationalism, Catholicism and Franco’s leadership. This article contextualises María de la Hoz in the development process of Spanish avant-garde humour and in Francoist propaganda fiction during and immediately after the civil war in order to analyse the ideological stance it represented and, potentially, reinforced. As a political piece, the book seems to convey the position of an affluent middle class who did not enthusiastically believe in Francoism but preferred it to the republican alternative, caricatured as a communist regime by nationalist propaganda.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Absurdist fiction"

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Gutberlet, Terrance. "Chaos Management." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2325.

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Weeks, Elizabeth K. "Dotted Lines." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1531909104613623.

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Campbell, Sam Nicole. "Blend it Like Beckett: Samuel Beckett and Experimental Contemporary Creative Writing." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3769.

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Samuel Beckett penned novels, short stories, poetry, stage plays, radio plays, and scripts—and he did each in a way that blended genre, challenged the norms of creative writing, and surprised audiences around the globe. His experimental approach to creative writing included the use of absurdism, genre-hybridization, and ergodicism, which led to Beckett fundamentally changing the approach to creative writing. His aesthetics have trickled down through the years and can be seen in contemporary works, including Aimee Bender’s short story collection The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Mark Z. Danielewski’s novel House of Leaves[1]. By examining these works in comparison to Beckett, this project hopes to illuminate the effects of Beckett’s experimentation in form and genre on contemporary creative writing. [1] The word ‘house’ appears in blue to honor Danielewski’s decision to have the word printed in that color each time it appears in his novel.

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Books on the topic "Absurdist fiction"

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Lo que sé de los hombrecillos. Alfaguara, 2023.

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Lo que sé de los hombrecillos. Booket, 2011.

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Wang, Shou, and John Frederick Franz. The Debt Collector. Penguin Books China, 2020.

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La mujer loca / The Insane Woman. Alfaguara, 2023.

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Lo que sé de los hombrecillos. Booket, 2011.

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Guru, Reading. Absurdist Fiction Reading Journal: A Reading Guru Journal for Book Lovers Worldwide. Independently Published, 2021.

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Sandor, Eva. Fool's Proof. Huszar Designs, 2020.

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Sandor, Eva. Fool's Proof. Huszar Designs, 2020.

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Abertump Uprising. Wordcatcher Publishing Group Ltd, 2017.

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Reva, Maria. Good Citizens Need Not Fear. Thorndike Press Large Print, 2020.

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Sheehan, Paul. "Beckett's Fiction." In The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature, 152–61. New York: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003422730-20.

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Ionica, Cristina. "Introduction to Beckett’s “Absurdist” Excess." In The Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Beckett's Postwar Drama and Fiction, 1–35. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34902-8_1.

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Eile, Stanislaw. "Between Absurdity and Apocalypse: Contemporary Poland in Drama and Fiction, 1977–87." In New Perspectives in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature, 180–200. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12331-5_12.

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"XI. Absurdist Visions: Dr. Strangelove in Context." In American Science Fiction and the Cold War, 145–56. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781474472487-013.

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"4. The Sense of Injustice in Modern Absurdist Fiction." In Dark Mirror, 168–217. Fordham University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780823295364-006.

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Goedde, Petra. "The Politics of Peace." In The Politics of Peace, 189–220. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195370836.003.0008.

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The last chapter examines the migration of a politics of peace from the margins to the centers of political power. As leading antinuclear and peace advocates became increasingly marginalized by the student and antiwar movements, their efforts were beginning to bear fruit in the arena of international politics. They were helped by a popular groundswell of sentiment that saw the arms race and the political ideology of nuclear deterrence as increasingly absurd. Absurdist writers, filmmakers, and philosophers of the 1950s and 1960s creatively underscored the absurdist nature of Cold War politics through works such as Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction film Dr. Strangelove, and the fictional secret government Report from Iron Mountain. Together, they helped pave the way for political leaders, including Nixon in the United States, and Willy Brandt in West Germany, to develop a more pragmatic politics of peace.

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Rouse, Anderson. "A Camus for the Common Folk." In Rediscovering Frank Yerby, 163–82. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496827821.003.0009.

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After World War II, Black writers and thinkers, from Richard Wright to bell hooks, influenced by French existentialists like Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Satre, adapted existentialism as a way to explain and respond to the African American experience. In his novels, Frank Yerby displays a sophisticated awareness of philosophical ideas, especially absurdism, and theological questions, despite his insistence that his novels could not be “reduce[ed] to a morality play” (Hill, “Interview,” 212). Yerby, in addition to using fiction to debunk historical myth, develops arguments about religion—that religion is invented “nonsense,” and, therefore, not worth killing or dying for, that God, if he exists, is cruel, careless, or distant, and that morality need not hew to an a priori standard. Yerby, then, responded to religious belief and voiced a philosophical response to human suffering (though, not particularly African American suffering) that was shaped by absurdist thought.

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Markova, Ekaterina A. "Notes from Underground by F.M. Dostoevsky as a Relevant Text in the English and Irish Literature of the 20th Century." In “Notes from Underground” by F.M. Dostoevsky in the Culture of Europe and America, 436–61. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0668-0-436-461.

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The influence of F.M. Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground on the English and Irish literature of the XXth century has been mainly connected with existentialism. The interaction of ‘self ’ and ‘the other’, the unique character of one’s being, inability to find the truth objectively — all these themes of Dostoevsky’s novella are relevant for D.H. Lawrence, G. Orwell, J. Fowles, I. Murdoch, S. Beckett and other modern writers. The article shows how particular literary texts of these authors react to Dostoevsky’s novella. Original interpretations of this writing are associated with certain genres and movements (dystopia for Orwell, confessional novel for Fowles and Murdoch, absurdist fiction for Beckett), as well as individual styles of certain authors (Lawrence).

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"Endgame: Mitchell and Webb’s ‘Remain Indoors’ Sketch Series, Absurdist Comedy and the Collapse of Meaning in Apocalypse Narratives." In The Projected and Prophetic: Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace, and Science Fiction, 171–81. BRILL, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9781848880870_020.

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Kermode, Frank. "Solitary Confinement." In The Sense of an Ending, 155–80. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195136128.003.0006.

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Abstract In this lecture, which is my last, I shall try to touch upon most of the themes proposed in the earlier ones, though I do not hope to provide in it the marvellous clue that would make all the rest useful and systematic. I could only do that if I were the master described in the poem, that ‘more severe, More harassing master’I have his programme but not his powers. ‘Life / As it is, in the intricate evasions of as’ is what I am talking about, as best I can; and I am glad that it was in my most recent talk that I discussed Sartre, who knew that fictions, though prone to absurdity, are necessary to life, and that they grow very intricate because we know so desolately that as and is are not really one. None of our fictions is a supreme fiction.

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Conference papers on the topic "Absurdist fiction"

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Pilar, Martin. "EWALD MURRER AND HIS POETRY ABOUT A DISAPPEARING CULTURAL REGION IN CENTRAL EUROPE." In 10th SWS International Scientific Conferences on ART and HUMANITIES - ISCAH 2023. SGEM WORLD SCIENCE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.35603/sws.iscah.2023/s28.06.

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The contemporary Czech poet using the pseudonym Ewald Murrer (born in 1964 in Prague) used to be a representative of Czech underground literature before 1989. Then he became one of the most specific and original artists of his generation. The present essay deals with his very successful collection of poetry called The Diary of Mr. Pinke (1991, English translation published in 2022). Between the world wars, the most Eastern part of Czechoslovakia was so-called Subcarpathian Ruthenia (or Karpatenukraine in German). This rural and somewhat secluded region neighbouring Austrian Galicia (or Galizien in German) in the very West of Ukraine and the South- East of Poland used to be a centre of Jewish culture using mainly Yiddish and inspired by local folklore. The poems of Ewald Murrer are deeply rooted in the imagery of Jewish and Rusyn fairy tales and folk songs. While Marc Chagall, the famous French painter (coming from today�s Byelorussia), discovered these old sources of Jewish art for European Modernism, Ewald Murrer uses the same sources but his approach to literary creation can be seen as much more post-modern: he uses but at the same time also re-evaluates old myths and archetypes of this region with both a lovely kind of humour and more serious visions of Kafkaesque absurdity that are probably unavoidable in Central Europe. The fictional and highly poetic diary of Mr. Pinke is highly significant as a sophisticated revival of the almost forgotten culture of a Central European region that almost definitely stopped existing after the tragic times of the Holocaust and Stalinism.

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Pilar, Martin. "EWALD MURRER AND HIS POETRY ABOUT A DISAPPEARING CULTURAL REGION IN CENTRAL EUROPE." In 10th SWS International Scientific Conferences on ART and HUMANITIES - ISCAH 2023. SGEM WORLD SCIENCE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.35603/sws.iscah.2023/s10.06.

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The contemporary Czech poet using the pseudonym Ewald Murrer (born in 1964 in Prague) used to be a representative of Czech underground literature before 1989. Then he became one of the most specific and original artists of his generation. The present essay deals with his very successful collection of poetry called The Diary of Mr. Pinke (1991, English translation published in 2022). Between the world wars, the most Eastern part of Czechoslovakia was so-called Subcarpathian Ruthenia (or Karpatenukraine in German). This rural and somewhat secluded region neighbouring Austrian Galicia (or Galizien in German) in the very West of Ukraine and the South- East of Poland used to be a centre of Jewish culture using mainly Yiddish and inspired by local folklore. The poems of Ewald Murrer are deeply rooted in the imagery of Jewish and Rusyn fairy tales and folk songs. While Marc Chagall, the famous French painter (coming from today�s Byelorussia), discovered these old sources of Jewish art for European Modernism, Ewald Murrer uses the same sources but his approach to literary creation can be seen as much more post-modern: he uses but at the same time also re-evaluates old myths and archetypes of this region with both a lovely kind of humour and more serious visions of Kafkaesque absurdity that are probably unavoidable in Central Europe. The fictional and highly poetic diary of Mr. Pinke is highly significant as a sophisticated revival of the almost forgotten culture of a Central European region that almost definitely stopped existing after the tragic times of the Holocaust and Stalinism.

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