“Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come...” DespairResignationAbsurdismFrench LiteratureAbsurdist Book:The Stranger Source: The Stranger
“Long before the Theater of the Absurd, Woolrich discovered that an incomprehensible universe is best reflected in an incomprehensible story. ("Introduction")” AbsurdAbsurdityAbsurdismIncomprehensibleCornell WoolrichAbsurdist FictionTheater Of The AbsurdAbsurdist Book:Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich Source: Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich
“For those whose senses are properly attuned, the most insignificant events—a woman who delays, a dog who sniffs at a wall—result in something so ineffable … it's as if a hidden universe of accumulated coincidences and circumstances had ordained it—so that even in the presence of so slight a spectacle as that of two flies alighting on a bald head, one would have the impermeability of a crocodile not to experience a veritable paroxysm of admiration.” RevelatoryAbsurdist Author:Oliverio Girondo