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News analyst Peter Shapiro, who alleges that he was a student in English 166, writes in The Crimson (2/8/74) that Samuel Beckett is an "English-born absurdist writer...
...label "pornography," according to Webster's. Out of court, no longer are we asking "is it pornography?" but "why not pornography?" The courtroom is another story, however, since legal precedent supports the censorship of pornography in principle (Roth v. U.S., 1957). In the past, in court, the battle assumed absurdist dimensions: was Deep Throat "educational" in nature? Or did it have "redeeming social value?" The civil libertarians were put (perhaps too willingly) in the virtually ridiculous position of finding social excuses for the pornography in question. This method of defense was doomed to failure, as it did in fact fail...
Feydeau was never restrained by the polite inhibition that one cannot kid the tonsils off a person who stutters, and his plays abound in incidental characters whom nature has shortchanged. He was a quintessential absurdist. With dead pan verbal incongruity a character may say, "Just because my life is ruined doesn't mean I can't act like a gentle man. After all, life isn't everything...
Polanski has always fancied himself something of an absurdist, although his best films-such as Knife in the Water, Repulsion and Cul de Sac-have been more notable for good, slightly kinky melodrama. What? has more of the trappings of absurdist comedy. The girl, although apparently free to leave, remains a prisoner; nothing is explained, no one acts out of any clear motivation...
Clark said his "The Impression We Exist" is "an absurdist play along the lines of "Waiting for Godot." All semblance of logical construction is suspended," he said...