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abˈsurdism
[ad. Fr. absurdisme (Camus).]
(See quots.) Hence abˈsurdist a.; as n., one who writes or admires absurdist drama. See theatre of the absurd s.v. theatre n. 3 c.
1954[see absurd B. n.]. 1959N. & Q. CCIV. 380/1 The absurdist dilemma. 196020th Cent. Apr. 321 The absurdist ethic does not recommend either..virtue or..crime. 1965Listener 13 May 705/1 The American absurdist..resorts to strategies of overstatement, rather than a single suggestive scene. 1974J. I. M. Stewart Gaudy iii. 40 Beckett led the field, backed by Ionesco, Adamov, and other absurdists. 1983N. & Q. Dec. 573/1 The absurdists sneered at the didacticism of the Brechtians. |