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mads.xsd"><authority><topic authority="http://AATesaurus.cultura.gencat.cat/aat/getty_en">the Absurd</topic></authority><related type="other"><topic>absurdism</topic></related><related type="other"><topic>pataphysics</topic></related><related type="broader"><topic>historical, theoretical, and critical concepts</topic></related><variant type="other"><topic>Absurd</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>absurd</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>the Absurd</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>the absurd</topic></variant> <note xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[ Refers to a philosophical or critical concept that supposes that humanity's attempt to find meaning are doomed due to the chaotic and inexplicable nature of the universe in which we live. The concept was thought to have been embodied in the Theatre of the Absurd, a dramatic genre of the 1950s and 1960s, exemplified in the work of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco, among others. ]]></note></mads>