“荒诞派”是西方现代派艺术的一个流派。其主要作品是戏剧,所以又称之为“反戏剧派”或“先锋派”。它主要流行于法国、英国、德国、美国等地;在西方戏剧界有一定影响。“荒诞派”一度盛行于二十世纪的五、六十年代,前后喧嚣不到三十年,就走向了衰落。从社会原因来看,它的产生和盛行与第二次世界大战以后帝国主义国家内外矛盾的日益激化有关。当时西方笼罩着冷战空气,各国的政治、经济危机不断发生,人民生活动荡不安。这些社会原因促使一部分小资产阶级知识分子产生不满现实、悲观失望的离心倾向。“荒诞 Absurd is a genre of Western modernist art. Its main work is drama, so it is also called “anti-drama” or “avant-garde.” It is mainly popular in France, Britain, Germany, the United States and other places; in the western theater have a certain impact. “Absurd” once prevailed in the 1950s and 1960s in the twentieth century. After less than three decades of hustle and bustle, the absurd group was on the decline. From a social point of view, its emergence and prevalence are increasingly related to the intensification of conflicts both inside and outside the imperialist countries after the Second World War. At that time, the West was enveloped in the cold war air. The political and economic crises in various countries continued to occur and the people’s lives were turbulent. These social reasons have prompted some petty-bourgeois intellectuals to become dissatisfied with the centrifugal tendency of reality and pessimism. "absurd