^#smrgSAHAF The Harold Pinter Tradition in Contemporary Drama: Çağdaş Dramada Harold Pinter Geleneği -

Towards the middle of our century we see the emergence of a strange and often brilliant movement in the theatre, which, for lack of a better word, we call the Absurd. The dictionary meaning of absurd is "out of harmony with reason, incongruous, unreasonable, illogical." In common English it is used to mean "ridiculous." But this is not the sense in which the word is used in context with the Theatre of the Absurd. Absurdity is the attempt to find a rational explanation to an irrational existence. Ionesco defines absurd as "... that which is devoid of purpose... Cut off from his religious, metaphysical, and trancendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless." The absurd hero can be compared to a man who, walking on a straight, smooth road takes a fall down a deep well for no apparent reason at all. (Kitabın Girişinden)