Reviews | By Macey Phillips
When Realism Falls Short, Absurdism Provokes Meaning: A Review of Kim Samek’s I Am the Ghost Here
According to philosopher and writer Albert Camus, absurdity exists somewhere between a human need and a silent world. It involves an “irrational and wild” longing for clarity and often defies meaning-making. This is the rub that writers have been sorting out for centuries—interrogating the horrors of existence, hoping to derive a semblance of meaning. Kim …