The purpose of this article is the analysis of the category of the absurd in the work of Neil Gaiman in the context of English cultural tradition. It is noted that the absurdity is understood in existential and linguistic sense, and that English literature is more typical linguistic interpretation of the absurd. Set correspondence between the notions of absurdity and nonsense. Discusses the works of Neil Gaiman in the context of the traditions of English literature of the absurd. To achieve the objectives set out in article uses historical and comparative method, and intertextual analysis. Identifies features of linguistic absurdity and language games in the novels and short stories writer and concludes that Neil Gaiman uses the category of the absurd with different goals - and post-game for the game, and the destruction of familiar scenes, and focus on the absurdity of our reality that you can realize just by looking at reality from a distance or from a different angle.
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