Description:
The article is devoted to the key issues of the discourse of life absurdity in the history of culture. “The Book of Ecclesiastic” is viewed as a starting point. In Modern Age ecclesiastical discourse is continued brightly in the works of B. Pascal, A. Schopenhauer and A. Camus. To some extent it is presented by A. Herzen and L. Tolstoy, and also in European poetry of Homer, W Shakespeare, J. Goethe, V. Zhukovskiy, M. Lermontov, I. Nikitin, F. Tuytchev.