Absurdist fiction is a genre of novels, plays, poems, films, or other media that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value.
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Absurdist fiction is a reaction against the surge in Romanticism in Paris in the 1830s, the collapse of religious tradition in Germany, and the societal and philosophical revolution led by the expressions of Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Common elements in absurdist fiction include satire, dark humor, incongruity, the abasement of reason, and controversy regarding the philosophical condition of being "nothing".
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The integral characteristic of absurdist fiction involves the experience of the struggle to find an intrinsic purpose in life, depicted by characters in their display of meaningless actions in the futile events they take part in.
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Absurdist fiction posits little judgment about characters or their actions; that task is left to the reader.
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Absurdist fiction genre grew out of the modernist literature of the late 19th and early 20th century in direct opposition to the Victorian literature which was prominent just prior to this period.
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Existential and Nihilistic philosophical influences on Absurdist Fiction were resultant of the post-war disillusionment.
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Theatre of the Absurd is termed as a post-World War One designation for Absurdist Fiction plays, specifically those written by primarily European playwrights in the late twentieth century, as one for the style of theatre which has evolved from their work.
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Ionesco's engagement with Existentialism is characteristic of Absurdist fiction Theatre is distinct in the utilisation of the seemingly ridiculous English language and society's unwillingness to communicate with each other.
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The tragicomedy element to Beckett's Absurdist fiction play adds a comic futility that can be compared to slapstick comedy and cartoon characters such as the characters Tom and Jerry.
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