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Fiction of the Absurd: Pratfalls in the Void

Dick Penner

First published 1980
Publisher Mentor / New American Library
Format Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art René Magritte
Pages 339
Price $3.50
ISBN 0451619048

ISBN on spine. "First Printing, December, 1980" on copyright page. First printing by number line. Each story (or stories by the same author) is preceded by an essay about the author and the story. Three sections, Absurd Imagination, Absurd Love, and Absurd Rebellion. Each section is preceded by a selection of quotations about the theme of that section.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction (Fiction of the Absurd: Pratfalls in the Void) Dick Penner Essay
23 Absurd Imagination various Essay
25 Nikolai Gogol Dick Penner Essay
37 The Nose Nikolai Gogol Novelette
61 Daniel Kharms Dick Penner Essay
67 The Cashier Daniil Kharms Short Story
70 The Old Woman Daniil Kharms Short Story
91 Franz Kafka Dick Penner Essay
101 Conversation with the Supplicant Franz Kafka Short Story
107 Before the Law Franz Kafka Short Story
108 A Dream Franz Kafka Short Story
110 Vladimir Nabokov Dick Penner Essay
115 The Visit to the Museum Vladimir Nabokov Short Story
125 Flann O'Brien Dick Penner Essay
128 John Duffy's Brother Flann O'Brien Short Story
133 Witold Gombromitz Dick Penner Essay
139 Cosmos, Chapters 1 & 2 Witold Gombrowicz Short Fiction
167 Absurd Love various Essay
168 Samuel Beckett Dick Penner Essay
174 First Love Samuel Beckett Short Story
191 Eugène Ionesco Dick Penner Essay
197 Oriflamme Eugène Ionesco Short Fiction
205 Tommaso Landolfi Dick Penner Essay
208 Gogol's Wife Tommaso Landolfi Short Story
219 Juan Carlos Onetti Dick Penner Essay
224 A Dream Come True Juan Carlos Onetti Short Fiction
239 Absurd Rebellion various Essay
240 Voltaire Dick Penner Essay
248 Candide (selections) Voltaire Short Fiction
295 Joseph Heller Dick Penner Essay
299 Catch-22, Chapter 18: The Soldier Who Saw Everything Twice Joseph Heller Short Fiction
310 Ingeborg Bachmann Dick Penner Essay
314 A Place for Coincidences Ingeborg Bachmann Short Story
326 Albert Camus Dick Penner Essay
336 The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus Essay