Dec 16, 2009

Absurdism | What Do I Read Next?

Just as the playwrights of Absurdism rejected existing theatrical traditions, the poet e. e. cummings departed from the norms of traditional poetry with his unconventional use of grammar, syntax, and punctuation. His collection 100 Selected Poems, published in 1989 by Grove Press, contains such poems as “anyone lived in a pretty how town,” “next to of course god america i,” and “my sweet old etcetera.”

Some of the most famous images of artist René Magritte, like the green apple or the black bowler hat, are often described as absurdist. Robert Hughes’s The...