Titres dans Absurdisme

Despite overcoming every adversity placed before him, Brandon Andrew Morgan can’t seem to catch a break for long. At the very moment, he’s feeling at the top of the world, fate intervenes with a hearty dose of misfortune plus interest. In a stunning turn of events, Brandon is ditched at the altar, unceremoniously single, and forced to run Haven on his own without so much as an explanation. Suffice to say, he doesn’t take it well. Yet the time to wallow in such things is cut short, for a new danger to Haven and the entire world sets upon him with every inconvenience.

From the first puzzling sentence, Banker's Holiday—a euphemism for a federal bank closure—conjures the bleak and humorous world of Cincinnatus Stillman Fuller, a billionaire financier who suffers a breakdown in the middle of a Monday morning staff meeting.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Un scriitor (întâmplător sau nu, având același nume cu autorul) duce o existență cât se poate de mulțumitoare: singurul conflict autentic din viața lui, după cum ne anunță chiar de la început, este încăpățânarea de a scrie, când, după toate aparențele, nu are de ce. În lipsă de alte frământări, observă în tihnă lumea din jur și începe să ne povestească pe un ton firesc lucruri banale care i se întâmplă, în cartier și prin împrejurimi: o vizită la o clinică de gastroenterologie, prezentarea unor cursuri de scriere creativă la o librărie sau un drum la frizer.

"تمكتو" واحدة من روايات أوستر الغريبة والتي يأخذنا فيها كالعادة إلى عالمه المتناقض ما بين العبثية والوجودية لكن هذه المرة سيكون بطل الرواية " كلب" فجميع الأحداث...

The dead don’t always stay buried. And some refuse to move on. After barely surviving his brush with death, Clay Donovan is stuck between worlds—his body clings to life, but his soul refuses to let go. As he struggles to understand the new rules of the afterlife, a restless spirit begins terrorizing a college campus, seeking vengeance on those who left him behind. Darcey, ever the fiend, is ready to do what she does best: eliminate the problem. But Clay isn’t convinced death is the only way out.

In this fiendishly original novel, Mark Leyner is a leather-blazer-wearing, Piranha 793-driving, narcotic-guzzling monster who has potential rivals eliminated by his bionically enhanced bodyguards, has his internal organs tattooed, and eavesdrops on the erotic fantasies of Victoria's Secret models–fantasies that naturally revolve around him.

Nightshift clerk and high-functioning insomniac Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble. But when his chain-smoking coworker discovers a mysterious radio signal revealing the guarded secrets of their town, Jack will learn that an annoying new dayshift manager is far from the worst of his problems. In this second installment of the Gas Station saga, Jack finds himself entangled in his most harrowing adventure yet.

Великий роман главного литературного мистика и одно из самых проникновенных философских произведений ХХ века. Некий К. прибывает в Деревню, чтобы занять должность землемера. Вот только в Замок его не пускают, в Деревне не принимают, и домой он вернуться тоже не может. Мир вокруг превращается в лабиринт абсурда: дороги испаряются, люди ведут себя странно, время будто бы замедляет свой ход. Чтобы двери Замка наконец-то открылись, К. должен разобраться в местной бюрократии и пройти все необходимые инстанции. Есть нюанс — все в деревне знают, что просто так в Замок попасть невозможно, но никто не знает, откуда нужно начать.

Em seu terceiro livro de contos, Alexandre Willer segue falando dos dramas humanos de forma peculiar, enveredando, nesta empreitada, não apenas pelas coisas do amor, mas por situaç….

The Kappa is a creature from Japanese folklore known for dragging unwary toddlers to their deaths in rivers: a scaly, child-sized creature, looking something like a frog, but with a sharp, pointed beak and an oval-shaped saucer on top of its head, which hardens with age. Akutagawa’s Kappa is narrated by Patient No. 23, a madman in a lunatic asylum: he recounts how, while out hiking in Kamikochi, he spots a Kappa.

Пугающая реальность этой фантастической повести родилась из доведенного до абсурда понятия "демократии" - когда каждый индивидуум живет по своим законам и борется против всех и все другие борются против него.

Charming but flawed Jack was never "right," but that's a lot of what made him magnetic to others. His decades-long deterioration is chronicled in painful detail with a mix of dark humor, tragedy, and brutal self-awareness that is unlike any book you've ever listened to.

The excoriating stories in Mark Doten's brilliant first collection dissect the pathological narratives that shape our culture and country. Narrated by a crosscutting array of White people, Doten's stories spotlight the self-serving logic through which their characters struggle to make sense of, and take control of, the narrative of our time.

War on the mainland is draining Reykjavík. For some, the remote islands off Hrímland's coast are their only hope of survival. Elka, a recovering addict, has fled there with her son Sölvi. In their village they find a new life—all thanks to the Deep, a peculiar power their neighbours praise for the booming fishing industry. Everything seems perfect, but Sölvi does not trust the people who take his mother in.

THE AUTHOR is a dark absurdist take on the artist as a young man in a world damaged by social media, designer drugs, and the dark underbelly of Hollywood. The anonymous author of the saga peels back the curtain to reveal the inner life of a one-day superstar (or sociopath) desperate to become famous by any means necessary, who one day does, and pulls off one of the greatest public relations stunts in entertainment history.

Forbidden from pursuing her calling, Shadow Holmes, the great-granddaughter of Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock’s older—and smarter—brother, works for her father selling real estate in Miami. To compound matters, Shadow has no idea her father is the director of The Bee, a clandestine British spy agency, until she and her parents are poisoned by the bewitching—and decidedly evil— Professor Jane Moriarty.

Dive into the whimsical and satirical world of James Thurber and E.B. White with the audiobook "Is Sex Necessary? or Why You Feel the Way You Do," narrated by the talented Mike Vendetti. This classic work, first published in 1929, explores the perplexities of love, relationships, and human behavior with humor and wit. Through a series of essays, Thurber and White dissect the absurdities of the sexual revolution, the nature of the American male, and the quirks of feminine types.

A married couple struggling with infertility decide to go outside of their marriage for a consensual affair. One month, one exception and then they'll decide if IVF is right for them. Set in the sunny hills of Silver Lake, Los Angeles where the young artists and lawless musicians roam, comes this thrilling, fun, comedic love story that'll have you chuckling in public. Becca and Mark have been trying to have a baby for years. Technically, there's nothing wrong with them. They fight a lot, but what couple doesn't?

Hippy McTripperson travels the world looking for answers to life's big questions in this whimsical prequel to Here Come the Nothing Heads. Lost in the desert then lost at sea, Hippy eventually loses it all in a strange land down by the river. That's when the Nothing Heads begin to arrive in Happy Hollow, each seeking something completely different and each finding the one thing for which they never even thought to look.

Is Sex Necessary? was originally published in 1929 as a satirical and comedic exploration of romantic and sexual relationships, co-authored by iconic comedic writers E.B. White and James Thurber. Written in the aftermath of the Jazz Age and amidst changing societal norms regarding gender and relationships, Is Sex Necessary? parodies the burgeoning field of psychological and sexual analysis, poking fun at the over-seriousness with which such topics were increasingly dissected in the early 20th century.