Saturday April 10, 2010
In my blog last night, I did a piece on
Jonathan Miller’s version of Alice. I wrote this: “Carroll was actually a comic writer, not a
purveyor of existentialist absurdity.”
Just now, this morning, was reading The
Christian Universe by E.L. Mascall. The
author quotes a definition of aburd literature: “[W]orks that embody a very
specific literary convention: a series
of absurd – that is, nonsensical or ridiculous – events that suggest the
ultimate absurdity, the ultimate meaninglessness, of human existence.” The author comments: “That is a
nonsensicality very different in intention and implication from the
good-humoured foolery of the verses of Edmund Lear or Lewis Carroll’s ‘The
Hunting of the Snark’.”
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