I am researching how my work relates to absurdist fiction. I started from the Wikipedia page, and I have been reading The Absurd in Literature, by Neil Cronwell. From the Wikipedia page, I have followed links to nihilism, agnosticism, and existentialism. The last is probably the most relevant to my work as the characters are a personification of "the existential attitude, or a sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world", but these are all new concepts to me, so I am still building an understanding.