J. Carlisle presents the most significant contemporary philosophical takes on coping with the Absurd as accessible and thoughtful allegory in his second work Life at the Edge of the World. It depicts a sequence of absurd characters living at peak irony, all the while peeling away the layers of civility and social pretences which separate the protagonist Gunaf from his furry companion Bur. Their physical journey takes them to the actual edge of the world simultaneous with the stripping away of the last vestiges of Gunaf's humanity. There he must confront the embodiment of nothingness and...