What does Absurd mean ?When I searched the glossaries ,I found the word to be out of harmony(1).But yet the definitions trying hard to explain the term , just to end in total Absurdity (assuming for a while that we know the meaning of the word),as they talk in total sense, the nonsense about it and of course that means they fail(in their attempt ).But considering the term to be linked with literature (and other forms of art too!),when I searched for more I came across the lines that states that no literary criticism [in which I include the attempts to explain the literary terms] can take the literary work itself ,or to be more specific it [literary criticism]is no substitute for reading the work itself(2),as it [the piece of work]is the most exactly and precisely ,the thought conveyed or explained. So, I reached the idea that to understand absurd .I must view an absurd work by an artist, rather than poring over the talks about it. Hence as a literary student what first came to my mind at this instant is none, but WAITING FOR GODOT by Samuel Beckett, the so called absurd play structured around Go dot, the axis all absurdity[as till the date none could declare with confidence who...
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