This book entitled: “Contextualizing Existential Absurdity: A Bakhtian Reading of the Major Plays of Edward Albee and Eugene Ionesco is an ambitious venture of Dr. Anum Mirza who got Ph. D degree from Lovely Professional University. She is a budding Bakhtin Scholar and has worked extensively in order to make this book a great success. All the major plays of Eugene Ionesco and Edward Albee are investigated and analyzed from the perspective of the carnival theories of Bakhtin and Franz Kafka. This book is written for the understanding of graduates and post-graduate students as a text book and for the Ionesco Albee scholars. The comic and the elements of terror have been explored in the subsequent chapters. No critic in the past and the present has so far investigated the influence of Mikhail Bakhtin on Ionesco and Edward Albee who uses black humor and the elements of the grotesque to dramatize the trapped condition of the characters. The game of language of Ionesco and Albee is unique and is fully investigated in the subsequent chapters.