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David asked in Arts & HumanitiesBooks & Authors · 6 years ago

Are there any real absurd novels?

Has anyone written any completely absurd novels that mostly make no sense, though follow a storyline?

I'm talking real absurd, not just stupid comedy.

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Slaughterhouse-Five;

    Hidden Camera by Zivkovic;

    Meowmorphosis.

  • MsBittner
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    My favorite absurdist novel by a huge margin is Catch-22.

  • mikah_smiles
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" by Laurence Sterne. Might not be exactly what you're after, but might be worth looking at.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Depending on how you define "absurd," there's always "Finnegans Wake." It makes very little sense on the surface, but lots of different kinds of sense just underneath.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    6 years ago

    Anything by Tom Sharpe. I especially liked "Wilt" and "Porterhouse Blue".

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