Absurdist Humour

Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence...

What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at the foot of Saint Sebastian’s Abyss along with Schmidt, hands cupped to the sides of our faces, debating art, transcendence, and the glory of the apocalypse.” Former best friends who built their careers writing about a single work of art meet after a decades-long falling-out. One of them, called to the other’s deathbed for unknown reasons by a “relatively short” nine-page email, spends his flight to Berlin reflecting on Dutch Renaissance painter Count Hugo Beckenbauer.

Awarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to Madrid, where in a bar she meets a man with an extraordinary story to tell. In exchange for somewhere to sleep and to hide out for a few days, he is willing to tell her the whole astonishing tale. What follows is an account of fantastic proportions and ingredients: the existence of a shadowy Internet TV show with a certain morality clause, a threat to the storyteller's life, a diabolical nun, and the story of a girl with a missing left thumb.

Yang Wei wakes to find himself still a patient at the hospital. Somehow, he’s aged decades overnight and is confined to the geriatric ward on a massive Hospital ship as it floats along a bloodred sea full of unsightly things. But human remains and sea nymphs are perhaps nothing compared to the goings-on belowdecks.

Ich darf gar nicht mehr daran denken! Nachdem ich mich als Mann von der bekannten Inhaberin eines TV-Shoppingsenders als Kindermädchen für ihre verwaisten Nichten einstellen ließ, fing der Wahnsinn an. Äußerlich ein zartes Pflänzchen, entpuppt sie sich als manische, rechthaberische Kaktee. Ihre Logik weigert sich, an der Realität auch nur als Gast teilzunehmen.

En un inesperado y crítico momento de sus vidas, diez de los más ilustres pensadores de la cultura occidental son atraídos por una extraña luz que los deposita en el año 2015 y en la cubierta de un enorme yate de lujo: el Utopía. Algo inexplicable ha sucedido y por si fuera poco la tripulación del yate se reduce a Jenny, una desenvuelta exprostituta encargada de realizar las funciones de cocinera y asistenta. Sócrates, Aristóteles, Aquino, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Sartre y Ortega han sido secuestrados.

Se si fugge di notte da Villa Bacilla sulle ali di una diavolessa sexy, sorvolando Tristala assieme a tre equipaggi che si spostano contemporaneamente, può accadere di visitare gli otto mondi alterei della mappa nootica. Capita così di conoscere la terra primordiale di Ermete Trismegisto, Protoplas; i mari incantati di Capitan Guepière a Posidon; i cinquanta casinò e i locali notturni di Bludus; Mnemonia con i suoi fuochi fatui e l'insidia dell'embambolia; Medium con le sue giornate di Beneficenza Ben-evidente.

The writer and star of The State, Wet Hot American Summer, The Baxter, and Michael & Michael Have Issues brings readers his uniquely absurd humor in his hilarious first book. I was at my wit's end. I'd had enough of this job, this life, and my relationship had broken up. Should I eat chocolate...

Maintenu en parfait état de conservation par les eaux glaciales de la mer du Nord, repêché par un chalutier, puis décongelé, Napoléon Bonaparte revient à la vie au moment des attentats djihadistes de Paris, juste à temps pour sauver le monde... Une fable loufoque et jubilatoire par un auteur qui s'est imposé, en quelques années, dans les meilleures ventes, avec plus de 600 000 exemplaires vendus.

Tea, l'amica che nessuna vorrebbe. Ma se fosse lei l'unica in grado di salvare il mondo? Quattro giovani autrici comiche per un romanzo ironico, inaspettato e attualissimo. "Un libro scritto da donne ma che sanno parcheggiare" - Badfeminist.com. "Il peggior libro della storia" - Rivista maschilista italiana. "L'ennesimo disastro del 2020" - Tutti. Ci sono quattro ragazze. C'è Caterina che, senza nemmeno sapere bene come, è diventata una "influencer body positive". Posta le sue foto sui social, e grazie a lei molte ragazze e donne hanno iniziato ad accettare il proprio corpo.

It is the summer of 1914. As the world teeters on the brink of the Great War, a callow American painter, Francis Wyndham, arrives at a renowned European insane asylum, where he begins offering art therapy under the auspices of Alessandro Caligari - sinister psychiatrist, maniacal artist, alleged sorcerer. And determined to turn the impending cataclysm to his financial advantage, Dr. Caligari will - for a price - allow governments to parade their troops past his masterpiece: a painting so mesmerizing it can incite entire regiments to rush headlong into battle.