Olga Burenina's research is devoted to theoretical and philosophical modeling of the absurd in literature and related arts. Against the background of polemics with the already established theoretical discourse about absurdity, the author develops the concept according to which absurdity is understood as a phenomenon that occurs at crisis moments in history, becoming in the history of culture a transformational mechanism for transformation and transition from an ordinary sphere to a new and unexpected sphere, from familiar form and meaning - to other, unusual.