検索キーワード： 不条理

Smith Babbitt is in the prime of his life: he’s only 25 years into his 89-year lifespan. He knows this because of Timmy®, the mysterious app that can tell you with infallible accuracy how old you will be when you die. Smith still has 64 years to go. But lately he’s been in a rut, and his long lifespan is starting to feel like a sentence.

Auf einer Schiffsreise trifft der Protagonist dieser recht merkwürdigen Geschichte nicht nur ihn, sondern auch die verstörend-betörende Herzogin von Vizzerona-Forli. Es entspinnt sich ein absurd-surrealer "Roadtrip" am Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts.

Bei abendlicher Heimkehr von der Arbeit räsonniert Blumfeld über sein Leben als Junggeselle, die Vor- und Nachteile des Alleinseins, den Wunsch nach einem Begleiter, wenigstens eines Beobachters seines einsamen Lebens. Vor- und Nachteile eines Hundes: einerseits immer erfreut, ihn zu sehen, andererseits Träger von Schmutz und gegebenenfalls schlimmen Krankheiten. Bei Ankunft in seiner Wohnung findet er tatsächlich zwei Begleiter vor, aber gänzlich andere als gedacht...

Brought to you by Penguin. On the Six-Thousand Ship, things have started to feel changed. Since bringing aboard a number of strange objects from a newly discovered planet, the crew – both human and humanoid – have begun to feel a yearning. They want to be near the objects, to feel them...

A collection of twenty short stories inspired by and featuring medieval engravings. Although the pictures are all medieval, some stories occur in the present or future. Aside from other things, I had Mörk Borg, CY_BORG, and Death in Space on my mind. Let yourself be abducted into a world of terraformed androids, organ-based dialogs, unclean revivals, psilocybin-induced travels into the demonlands, and much more.

In the soul-crushing beige of an Idaho IRS office, where fluorescent lights hum endless and the radio loops forgotten hits, Elliot toils over tax forms, auditing losses that mirror his own. Trapped in a purgatory of mildew-stained carpets and petty office wars, he’s haunted by dreams he never chased, a life unlived. Amid the droning despair of coworkers reduced to shadows, each clinging to their rituals of donuts, weather reports, and futile team-building, a spark of chaos ignites, threatening to unravel the fragile order.

Das war's dann mit dem Jünger, Vasallen und Eiferer Der fast schon ernste viertletzte Teil der Daswarsdann-Trilogie »Welchen der beiden viertletzten Teile der Daswarsdann-Trilogie soll man zuerst lesen? Den vollkommen wahnsinnigen oder den fast schon ernsten?« Endlich eine hilfreiche Frage, liebe Kritik. Ich fürchte nur, meine Antwort wird euch nicht gefallen. »Warum nicht?« Na, ja. Ich kann nur sagen, was andere sagen. »Was sagen die denn?« Die einen sagen so, die anderen so. »Scheint egal zu sein, in welcher Reihenfolge wir die Teile abarbeiten«, sagen die Kritiker zu sich.

Charlie Chambers is a young and cute submissive boy ("cute like a corgi who would carry your slippers to you in bed every morning") living in Bangkok, fantasizing, and trying to make a name for himself as a writer and vlogger. But he's naive to the ways of the world. So naive that he must be trained by the bar girls of the White Rabbit, a go-go bar in Sukhumvit, and he must be punished for his sins.Amara is an Amazonian vixen.

An immigrant arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, falls into a job at a famous hedge fund, and is startled to discover how business is done on Wall Street. His observations of American culture and finance are jarring, surreal, and hilarious. The author worked directly for George Soros and launched funds with several other Soros alumni. In addition to his career in finance, he founded and continues to host one of the largest veteran fundraisers in New York.

A dazzling, surrealist fairy tale of a young woman's quest for house and home—from New York to the Texas hinterlands and, maybe, back again. The world is ending. It has been ending for some time. When did the ending begin? Perhaps when Evie’s mother died, or when her father died soon after...

When Tony Hardstaff breaks the bank playing ‘Snap!’ at the St Petersburg Casino, he is swept up in a maelstrom of romance and adventure. Seduced by the sultry Natassia Fillipovna Karamazov – a woman with curves so perfect they could make a geometry professor spontaneously combust – Tony is caught in flagrante by the Russian mafia, and flees for his life.

Nightshift clerk and high-functioning insomniac Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble. But when his chain-smoking coworker discovers a mysterious radio signal revealing the guarded secrets of their town, Jack will learn that an annoying new dayshift manager is far from the worst of his problems. In this second installment of the Gas Station saga, Jack finds himself entangled in his most harrowing adventure yet.

A man claiming to work for the CIA hires the Lints to find a shipping container of radioactive Agent Orange that vanished over fifty years ago. He insists someone is planning on using an army of drones to drench L.A. with the deadly chemicals before the week is out. The Lint Brothers enter a maze of bizarre suspects, from nefarious ad executives, to anarchistic Boy Scouts, to a toga-clad militia fighting for exclusive rule by women. The propaganda-obsessed society that seems to be running the world is probably worth looking into as well.

Follow Alice as she tumbles into a world where hats are mad, cats vanish mid-sentence, and queens take croquet far too seriously. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland isn't just a book—it's a portal into delightful absurdity, linguistic acrobatics, and the kind of dream logic only Lewis Carroll could conjure. With wit sharper than the Queen's axe and characters as bizarre as your strangest dreams, this is the ultimate escape for the logically exhausted and the wonderfully curious. Step through the looking... no, wait—that's another story. Just follow the White Rabbit.

Yah! Yah! Yah! written by Jack London: He was a whiskey-guzzling Scotchman, and he downed his whiskey neat, beginning with his first tot punctually at six in the morning, and thereafter repeating it at regular intervals throughout the day till bedtime, which was usually midnight. He slept but five hours out of the twenty-four, and for the remaining nineteen hours he was quietly and decently drunk. During the eight weeks I spent with him on Oolong Atoll, I never saw him draw a sober breath. In fact, his sleep was so short that he never had time to sober up.

Armand Bernal is breaking apart. The trials of youth become a torrential odyssey of dislocation and disorientation. In this bildungsroman for our modern age—an age of collapse—Ben Faulkner has created an unforgettable character wary of work, college, relationships, and the world at large, becoming an unstable young man moving toward an act of terrifying violence. Will he survive the gothic America of The Agonies?

Der Floh Grüter Blasius lebt glücklich und halbwegs zufrieden auf seinem Schweinebauernhof. Seine Leidenschaft ist das Dressurreiten. Nichts ist für ihn interessanter, als sein Reittier zu beobachten und die Natur des Menschen zu entschlüsseln. Aber obwohl er der Beste ist, wird ihm der Titel "Dressurreiter" von Trabbelsberg verwehrt. Also wird ein Plan entwickelt, um das große Ziel zu erreichen.

Clay Donovan thought dying was the end of his troubles, but fate isn’t done with him yet. Assigned as a temporary Death Walker, he makes one reckless decision—sparing the life of a social media influencer. Now, death is out of balance, and every life saved means another is lost. Now, something ancient and unforgiving is watching, waiting, and Clay is running out of time to fix his mistake before the cost becomes permanent.

Un día Matías Pascal, bibliotecario en Sicilia, lee en un periódico la florida reseña de su propia muerte. Toda la novela es una profunda reflexión sobre la constante pugna por establecer una identidad definida y tener un lugar bien definido en el mundo.

Hörbuch, H. G. Wells, Die unglaubliche Geschichte von Brownlow's Zeitung, Science Fiction, Satire – Lass dich von Alexander Wohnhaas in eine kuriose Welt der Nachrichten entführen, in der Brownlow's Zeitung mehr als nur gedruckte Worte offenbart! Diese fesselnde Erzählung kombiniert scharfsinnigen Humor mit einem Hauch von Zukunftsvision und regt zum Schmunzeln an – ideal, um abends in fantastische Traumwelten abzutauchen. Genieße die ironische Atmosphäre und lass dich von der ungewöhnlichen Geschichte auf eine spannende Reise mitnehmen!