This article delves into the philosophical and psychological reverberations of absurdist literature'particularly as articulated by Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus, Eugene Ionesco in The Bald Soprano, Jean-Paul Sartre in Being and Nothingness , and Franz Kafka in The Trial'and their transformative influence on 20th-century English literary culture. Absurdist, grounded in existentialist thought, dramatizes the confrontation between humanity's insistent quest for meaning and a universe devoid of inherent purpose, yielding intense psychological states marked by alienation, anxiety, and metaphysical despair. Through their seminal works, these European authors deeply influenced English writers such as Samuel Beckett, whose Waiting for Godot portrays existential stasis; Harold Pinter, whose The Birthday Party captures psychological menace; and Iris Murdoch, whose The Time of the Angels explores moral disorientation in a godless world. These English figures assimilated absurdist motifs to probe fractured identities, inner turmoil, and the collapse of rational discourse in the wake of historical trauma. This study, through comparative textual analysis and philosophical-psychoanalytic inquiry, argues that absurdist writing reconfigured English literary form, fostering experimental narratives and deepening the psychological and ontological discourse of modernism and postmodernism.
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