Abstract
The collection contains articles by undergraduate and graduate students at the conference organized by the Institute of Slavic Studies at Zurich University and the Department of Russian Language and Literature of the South Ural State University with the support of the Digital Teaching and Research Team (DLF) of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the University of Zurich and university complex of SUSU “Sigma”. The articles of the participants from the universities of Zurich, Lausanne, Chelyabinsk, Munich, Zagreb, Belgrade, Almaty are devoted to the problems of the phenomenon of the absurd in literature, art and cinema.