Expression of the Absurd in El extranjero of Albert Camus and Absolución of Luis Landero: Comparative Study

Abstract

In becoming aware of the passage of time and death, the characters’s Camus and Landero experience the absurd and try to free themselves from this feeling. For this, both authors start from rebellion, freedom and passion thorough an acceptance of the limits and the pantheistic unity with the Nature that provokes aesthetic of heartbreaking sensitivity. In addition, both authors agree on the way of expressing the absurdity by means of purely Kafka that uses techniques such as strangeness where everyday life becomes unheard dichotomies between reality and fiction, repetition of lexical and semantic over absurdity and chance, and the display of the rhetoric of uncertainty or oscillation, where paradox, perspectivism and ambiguity underlie the absurdity. But there are also divergences between the two, as Landero reactualizes this philosophy and expression of camusian absurdity by providing playful and parodic nuances properly postmodernist, where the word is a catalyst for absolution from the absurd.