Blogger Warning: HERE BE SPOILERS! Ahhh… absurdism. It’s so damn European! Think Albert Camus, Samuel Beckett (o.k., so he was Irish), Franz Kafka, Eugène Ionesco, Jean-Paul Sartre. It’s a genre that includes classic books like The Myth of Sisyphus, The Stranger, Waiting for Godot, No Exit, Rhinoceros and now, The Investigation. The Absurdist genre - in all its forms - is a commentary on the … Continue reading The Investigation by Philippe Claudel (translated from the original French by John Cullen)