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Michael P. Foley is an author of books like Drinking with the Saints, a professor at Baylor University, and a public speaker.
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- How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered The World by Francis Wheen
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
- The Magic Christian by Terry Southern
- Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett
- The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
- The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain
- Bouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert
- Ecclesiastes
This survey of contemporary absurdity reveals that the UK government, seeking ways to improve inner-city council estates, hired a feng shui consultant called Renuka Wickmaratne who said: "Red and orange flowers would reduce crime and introducing a water feature would reduce poverty. I was brought up with this ancient knowledge." Also revealed, alon...
This hilarious and terrifying account of a Caribbean Luxury Cruise is scrupulous documentary realism but also a contemporary fable. The perfect symbol of the age is a cruise liner – a gigantic mobile pleasure palace conveying outsize infants in pastel leisurewear round a series of shopping venues. Wallace reports, in amazement: "I have heard upscal...
This is the story of the ultimate prankster Guy Grand, a fabulously wealthy financial genius who amuses himself by buying into different enterprises and subverting them, for instance taking over Vanity Cosmetics and launching a shampoo called Downy, supposedly based on a formula that had been "Cleopatra's secret", but actually designed to destroy h...
Kafka gave the quest saga a modern twist by having unexceptional seekers who are always frustrated – the quest story without a hero or a conclusion. Beckett took this a stage further. Godot is a quest saga without even a quest. The two tramps, thoroughly modern men, can't be bothered to embark on a quest and just wait around for meaning to come to ...
This is the finest theoretical work on absurdity. Camus compares the human condition to the fate of Sisyphus, eternally condemned to push a rock up a hill, a fable that will resonate with all those obliged to work for a living. But Camus argues, convincingly, that Sisyphus can be happy with his rock. The book is short, exquisitely well-written, and...
This is another vision of life as absurd repetition – but eerie, nightmarish, totally black. In the key scene Sergeant Pluck and Policeman MacCruiskeen take the narrator on a visit to eternity (up an Irish country lane and deep underground) and tell him he can order whatever he wants. After some thought the narrator requests, and is given, 50 cubes...
The stroke of genius here is that, when Gregor Samsa wakes up as a gigantic insect, he himself experiences only "slight annoyance". It is other people who are disgusted, especially his family. Only the old cleaning woman is unaffected, chatting familiarly to Gregor as he scuttles happily across the ceiling.
Twain is generally remembered as a sunny, genial humorist but his late works are invigoratingly savage and dark. In his best late story, the town of Hadleyburg, renowned for incorruptible rectitude, offends a passing stranger so deeply that the man spends a year devising a perfect plan for exposing the hypocrisy of all the town's leading citizens. ...
Bouvard and Pécuchet are humble copy clerks until Bouvard unexpectedly inherits money and the two friends decide to give up work and devote themselves to acquiring knowledge. They attempt to master in turn farming, chemistry, medicine, astronomy, geology, gymnastics, spiritualism, philosophy, religion and phrenology, in each case following the best...
This short work expresses, in the most beautiful language, everything important about the absurdity of the human condition. No more literature or philosophy was needed but, as the author, perceptive in this too, acknowledges, "of making many books there is no end".
Michael Foley has 113 books on Goodreads with 15578 ratings. Michael Foley’s most popular book is The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to ...
NON-FICTION. POETRY. Michael Foley is a Northern Irish author who lives in London and writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry. He has published four novels, three non-fiction books, five collections of poetry and a collection of translations from French poetry.
Michael Foley. Producer. Writer. Additional Crew. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Michael Foley is known for You (2018), How to Get Away with Murder (2014) and Revenge (2011). More at IMDbPro. Contact info.
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Feb 21, 2010 · Everything about modern life conditions you for a life of unhappiness, broken dreams and thwarted ambition. Michael Foley's entertaining, intelligent book may just help you get over yourself...
Aug 15, 2022 · Michael Foley is a bestselling popular philosophy author and published poet and novelist. He has published critically-acclaimed poetry, novels, and non-fiction, including The Age of Absurdity, which was a bestseller and has been translated into seven languages. www.michael-foley.net.
