 Related styles exaggerate real life in a whimsical, eccentric, quirky or fanciful way, sometimes.The absurdist genre focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value.The closely related/overlapping surreal genre is predicated on deliberate violations of causality, producing events and behaviours that are obviously illogical.