“OPTICAL ILLUSIONS” OF HARMS AND ORKENY. MINUTES-ESSAYS ABOUT THINGS THAT MAY BE ABSURD

Abstract

The essay is devoted to understanding such complicated philosophical and cultural categories as “absurd” and “grotesque”. Author reflects on them through the literary text by Erken and Harms. Many examples of minutes and stories, personal observations, diachronic analysis of “absurd” phenomenon allows the author to come to unexpected conclusions, in particular, to put the category of absurd in evolutionary paradigm of human culture.