Titres dans Absurdisme

A portrait of the poet as an office worker, plumbing the depths of the spiritual gulf between art and work. It’s the summer of 2017 and D__, a poet working by day as a copywriter at a retail start-up, can’t dispel a creeping sense of dissolution on the horizon. Whether it be the company’s...

Dr. Eden Draco lives in “The Cone” shaped sanctuary in the middle of Derinkegel. Only young and healthy people roam the Cone. She doesn’t have to pay for food and drinks, education, housing, medical care or anything having to do with her upkeep. With assigned partners, the government made sure all the workers have nothing to want for. She lives in total bliss and happiness but feels like something is missing.

Several years after being plunked back down to Earth, Derek Christian (mediocre music journalist and reluctant space adventurer) finds himself being swept up again by the mysterious Kent to (once again) save the universe, this time from Clone Kent who is assembling an army to invade Zongoland and steal the Creator's secret recipe for doughnuts which contains the secret to all creation. Some things have changed in that time, Clone Derek (who took his place on Earth while he was away) has made Derek a rich and successful writer, but, he harbors a grudge.

Als Wippi die Zimmerpflanze herausfindet, dass die Welt noch mehr Fensterbretter für sie bereit hält, nutzt sie ihre Chance. So beginnt ihre Reise ins nächste Zimmer, um dem sadistischen Kaktus zu entfliehen. Begleiten Sie die kleine Pflanze bei ihren Herausforderungen des Lebens und nehmen Sie sich gerne die eine oder andere Erkenntnis mit.

Der einzige Teil der Bittenichthören-Trilogie ist einerseits die Fortsetzung vom drittletzten Teil der Daswarsdann-Trilogie, andererseits auch nicht. Es hat etwas mit einem rechtlichen Unsinn zu tun. Der interversale Geflunkerverlag wollte infolge des Unsinns dieses Buch partout nicht in seinem Programm haben.

Однажды в квартире известного писателя появляется слон. Слоны появляются повсюду. Их становится так много, что не сосчитать. Слон — это роман-аллегория, где личное переплетается с общественным, сатира соседствует с трагикомедией, а любовь оказывается последним убежищем в мире, где здравый смысл уступает место тотальному безразличию.

Sarah Olmes es una inspectora de policía con una increíble capacidad de deducción… que solo ha servido para ganarse la enemistad de toda la comisaría. Desterrada a un despacho sin ventanas —y sin futuro—, se plantea si debería dimitir y dedicarse a repartir propaganda. Hasta que su comisario, el inaguantable José Demás, se deshace de ella enviándola a un nuevo, y en apariencia resuelto, caso: el accidente de un célebre cocinero durante la décima edición del International Competition for Torreznos Unique from Soria.

Kevin Welch was just a small-time thug until a brutal encounter made him the pope! Now being hunted through the streets of Rome by clergy intent on taking his place as pontiff, Kevin finds a possible, though unlikely ally in an enigmatic and alluring hitwoman, but it seems she would just as soon kill him as help him, so can he actually trust her? Does he have a choice? Kevin just wanted to get his life back, and the only thing standing between him and that life is a cadre of bloodthirsty bishops and cardinals, furious nuns, hallucinogenic manifestations of Satan ... and his own ineptitude.

Most folks worldwide have visited a flea market, swap shop, or bazaar. Still, few take the time to get to know the variety of vendors peddling their lightly used or dubiously acquired inventory every weekend. At the Dusty Bucket, a self-described "androgynous pansexual with no more ambition nowadays than making a living as a flea market 'artist," sets up a table with their recently deceased mother's unremarkable collectibles. The booth neighbor sells discount cigarettes and has a tale of bluster for every occasion.

“A wonderful storyteller with a vibrant voice.” —The New York Times From the author of the cult classic Treasure Island!!!, a delightfully unhinged comedy following a woman as she attempts to exorcise the spirit of a dead corgi from her nephew and renegotiate the borders of her previously...

An explosive, jaw-dropping debut about a woman who loses her job as an oil company CEO after she’s filmed having sex with a tree in her sleep, a calamity that unravels her mind, spiraling her through history until she’s united with a centuries-old coven of ecstatically revolutionary women...

Steve Capone, Jr. shares three of his previously unpublished works from the last half decade or so. They are a bit odd. Wonder what it might have been like to see Jesus push a kid off a roof? Why an upstanding young woman might be breaking into a thrift shop after hours? Or what a man earning his million-miler recognition might have sacrificed to earn such high esteem? Three shorts answer these questions, at least in the mind of their author.

A darkly funny and profoundly moving new novel by award-winning author Patrick Cottrell. And who did I think I was, trying to teach the troubled youth how to write?... I would say I was Dan Moran, a Korean adoptee, single, approaching forty, once plain-in-appearance as a woman, now ugly as a man...

Das ist die Geschichte eines Mannes, der seit frühester Kindheit mit seinem Namen auf Kriegsfuß steht. Es geht um Verwirrungen und Pannen, vielleicht auch nur um Pech, welches ständig an die Tür klopft oder von unserem Protagonisten scheinbar angezogen wird. Warum aber ein Tanga bei einer Hochzeit `lebensrettend´ sein kann, welche Rolle `Erika´ spielt oder weshalb fröhliche Kinder der Inquisition gleichkommen – all das erfährt der Leser in dieser lustigen und kurzweiligen Geschichte.

Vor ein paar Jahren hat Marina ihren Mann von einem auf den anderen Tag verlassen. Nun plötzlich ein Lebenszeichen: ob er sich mit ihr treffen wolle? In einem Strandhotel. Mit mulmigen Gefühlen – und jeder Menge aufgestauter Wut - blickt Hermann dem Wiedersehen entgegen. Doch der Abend im luxuriösen Hotel in den Dünen nimmt einen gänzlich unerwarteten Verlauf und steigert sich zu einer irrwitzigen Saalschlacht, bei der buchstäblich kein Auge trocken bleibt.

In this new collection of short stories, Dactyl Literary Award winner Tom Newton once again playfully transmutes base reality into startlingly novel shapes and forms, shifting paradigms from beneath the listener's feet by deftly metamorphosing quotidian banality with whimsical, illusory invention.

Winner of the Locus Award and CIBA Mark Twain grand prize, The Man Who Saw Seconds is a gripping speculative fiction thriller, blending absurdist satire and adrenaline-charged suspense, about a New York man who can see five seconds into the future—which changes his life forever; perfect for...

En esta colonia, un antiguo comandante ha implementado una máquina de tortura y ejecución extremadamente cruel y elaborada, que graba en la piel del prisionero el motivo de su castigo antes de matarlo. A medida que el oficial observa horrorizado el funcionamiento de la máquina, se ve envuelto en un conflicto moral sobre la justicia, la crueldad y el poder.

El grito del muerto de H. P. Lovecraft, narra los resultados de las investigaciones del Dr. Herbert West sobre la muerte y la reanimación de los cuerpos, desde sus tiempos de estudiante en la ficticia Universidad Miskatonic hasta poco después de la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Smith Babbitt is in the prime of his life: he’s only 25 years into his 89-year lifespan. He knows this because of Timmy®, the mysterious app that can tell you with infallible accuracy how old you will be when you die. Smith still has 64 years to go. But lately he’s been in a rut, and his long lifespan is starting to feel like a sentence.