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absurdism
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ab·surd·ism  (b-sûrdz-m, -zûr-)
n.
1. A philosophy, often translated into art forms, holding that humans exist in a meaningless, irrational universe and that any search for order by them will bring them into direct conflict with this universe: "True absurdism is not less but more real than reality" John Simon.
2. An act or instance of the ridiculous: "This strained conceit never quite locates screen equivalents for the stage absurdisms" Village Voice.
ab·surdist adj. & n.
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If Ionesco's absurdist Rhinoceros found a place on the Hartke stage, it was because its message of anticonformity seemed humanistic, but most of the so-called Absurdists never bothered to light just one little candle in the darkness of existence because cursing the darkness had become their poetry.
TOWARD A 'CATHOLIC' THEATER : The legacy of Gilbert Hartke by Alleva, Richard / Commonweal
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