Absurd Space: Specifics of Communication
In this paper, general methodological specific characteristics of interpretation of the problems of space are analyzed, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, specifics of a particular kind of space (social space) are explored. In this context, the main research object in this paper becomes a special kind of social space: absurd space. For its analysis in the article, two new terms are introduced: an analytical meta-text and an absurdist text. Their specifics and differences are presented in the article in the following way: the analytical meta-text is interpreted as a text in which problems of absurd are analyzed and which is a research text on absurd while the absurdist text is interpreted as a consciously constructed text for presenting absurd itself. Examples of the texts from the absurd space given in the article include A. Camus’ texts on the absurd which are examined in the paper as the analytical meta-texts and E. Ionesco’s plays as the absurdist texts which present absurd itself. Concomitantly, these two thinkers are regarded in the article not only as the outstanding authors of the fictional stories but also as the philosophers. In my paper, I have shown analytical meta-text on the absurd is a result of the analytical position of the meta-level which is held by the author, in this case A. Camus. A conclusion I made in the article on the basis of the analysis that, in fact, in his texts, A. Camus postulates the conditions for the emergence of a new space: absurd space in which external and internal spaces of human being are confronted. Another conclusion I made in turn in the paper on the basis of the analysis of the absurdist texts that consciously constructed absurdist texts emerge as a result of a significant analytical work and deep knowledge of the philosophical and sociopsychological issues of the contemporary (in relation to the time when the texts were written) society which can be seen in E. Ionesco’s plays.