Absurd  

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Ubu Roi (King Ubu) is a play developed by Alfred Jarry premiered on December 10 1896, and is widely acknowledged as a theatrical precursor to the Absurdist, Dada and Surrealist art movements.

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Illustration: House of Nonsense (1911)

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters is a print by Francisco Goya from the Caprichos series

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Absurd or The Absurd may refer to:

• Absurdity, general and technical usage - associated with extremely poor reasoning, the ridiculous, or nonsense.
• Absurdism, a philosophy born of existentialism, regarding the philosophical concept of "the Absurd," the clash between the human tendency to seek some inherent meaning in the universe and the human impossibility of finding meaning
• Absurd or surreal humour
  • Absurdist fiction
• Theatre of the Absurd, an art form utilizing the philosophy of Absurdism
• Absurd, a term used in logic to describe a contradiction
  • Reductio ad absurdum, a type of logical argument
• Absurd (film), an Italian film

Etymology

First attested in 1557. From Middle French absurde, from Latin absurdus (“incongruous, dissonant, out of tune”), from ab (“away from, out”) + surdus (“silent, deaf, dull-sounding”).