Many critics, he said, "didn't know if it was an absurd work, realism — they could not name it.
The two publications, specialising in often absurd social realism, became a cult hit among intellectuals and contributed to the cultural backlash against communism in its dying days.
But we're starting to see developers abandon the usual excuses of tradition, demographics and, the most absurd of all, "realism," in favor of making gaming more inclusive.
For Putnam, this picture of word-world correspondence is absurd, pointing to a realism gone wild.
Whereas we live in an era in which naïve realism is absurd".
In character-driven comedies, funny people say funny things and fall into funny situations, but it's all contained within the realm of plausible realism; nothing absurd or unbelievable occurs.
Powerful currents from Europe and America including existentialism, the absurd, stream of consciousness, magic realism, neoexpressionism, modernism, and postmodernism soon made themselves felt as well.
In the early nineteen-seventies, he led a group of poets who believed that life in Mexico and in the rest of Latin America was so violent and absurd that poets needed to subvert reality and realism — as well as élitist literary hierarchies — even more than the surrealists had.
Surrealism, Expressionism, Magical Realism, Theater of the Absurd: such labels spring easily to mind in watching Mr. Nadj's vision unfold.
Its numbered propositions, many of them in the second person, some of them absurd, accrete a willful resistance to realism, even as they frame what seem to be facts from her life.
