The absurdly absurd: comparing the birthday party with waiting for godot by Patil Shikandar D.may well be placed against this background of new literary/academic culture.This book is born out of a definite need to find space for comparative studies in India. It is an effort towards authenticating them as a significant area of study for us.The book lays out a relevant plan and pursues the same with academic rigour.All along, it reinforces the idea of comparative literature as an academic discipline.Defining and describing, historicizing and problematizing, this book presents theories, marks out major school of Comparativism and helps us read through a plethora of valid referen