Absurdists

But he was—and is—a rationalist in a realm of absurdists. ❋ Ron Rosenbaum (2011)

For me, more than ever, the writers who best catch the peculiarly American, corn-fed surrealism that pours out from our TV screens are the great absurdists like Terry Southern, Joseph Heller and Bruce Jay Friedman, who've nailed greed and shame as well as anyone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The former Yugoslavia spawned the ground-breaking filmmaker Dusan Makavajev; the Czechs gave us authors Jaroslav Hasek, Karl Capek, Gogol, and Kafka; Poland offered Lem and Mrozek; Russia, the great absurdists, as well as Nabokov and Bulgakov; Ionesco was a gift from Rumania. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The absurdists were right. by xochi y. on Tuesday, Dec 2, 2008 at 7: 28: 41 AM ❋ Unknown (2008)

While it might be a worthy subject for the Stanley Kubrick of "Dr. Strangelove," privatized war is too important to be left to the amateur absurdists at work here. ❋ Unknown (2008)

People who dance with skeletons and skulls, have a Day of the Locos, endure an abysmal government with scornful laughter, are dark absurdists. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In using the idea of contingency and the unstructuredness of actual experience, I'm not pointing out anything the existentialists and absurdists didn't point out sixty years ago. ❋ Abigail Nussbaum (2005)

Even though the surrealists and absurdists and symbolists have long since shown us that anything is possible onstage, most playwrights and directors prefer to hew to the laws of time, gravity and thermodynamics. ❋ By ALEXIS SOLOSKI (2011)

Seeing these two absurdists riffing off each other, at one point wondering whether Jon Bon Jovi's real name was Jon Bonjela, was delightful, like seeing guitar virtuosos trading licks. ❋ Bruce Dessau (2011)

Havel admired the absurdists 'refusal to preach, instruct or philosophise in the manner of Jean-Paul Sartre and Bertolt Brecht. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Basically, satirists these days are forced to become absurdists in order to try and ply their craft. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I wonder why someone interested in critical thinking would not only not call about stupid shit like Bruce Springsteen American Traitor but would align themselves with such absurdists? ❋ Unknown (2010)

I think he’s one of the most interesting surrealists/absurdists around. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I’ll agree that “soft” surrealism runs into a problematic gendering—even if the strain comes out of people like Dean Young and James Tate and absurdists like John Barth—-but could we call it watered-down surrealism? ❋ Dodie Bellamy (2008)

So DS and Colbert is the best we’ve got right now — When the going gets absurd, the absurdists get going. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"We absurdists are always pleased to be of service. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2000)

One might argue that Samuel [Beckett], the author of Waiting fo [Godot], is the best absurdist playwright, even though crictics hated it until a group of [prison inmates] did a production of it. ❋ Josh Howard (2007)

"[Waiting] for [Godo]" is the most [famous] absurdist play ever. ❋ Ron_Thornbrash (2005)