“黑色幽默”是20世纪60年代崛起于美国的一个文学流派。这类作品以幽默为载体,旨在表现黑暗的社会现实,使人苦中有乐,笑中含泪。当代西方的社会现实与矛盾是“黑色幽默”文学产生的土壤,而存在主义哲学思潮以及欧美传统文化中的幽默感,尤其是“病态的幽默”等,则成了这一文学流派的思想基础和艺术形态。约瑟夫·海勒的《第二十二条军规》是黑色幽默文学的代表作,小说以崭新突出的手法,通过描写战争中的荒诞和疯狂,展示了现实社会的病态与非理性,及其对人性的压抑和扭曲。 “Black Humor ” is a school of literature that emerged in the United States in the 1960s. This type of work is based on humor and is intended to show the dark social reality. Contemporary Western social reality and contradiction are the soil of “black humor” literature, while the existentialist philosophical trend of thought and the sense of humor in European and American traditional culture, especially the “morbid humor”, have become this literature Genre’s ideological basis and artistic form. Joseph Heller’s “Twenty-Two Military Rules” is a masterpiece of black humorous literature. By describing the absurdity and madness in the war with a new and outstanding technique, the novel shows the morbidity and irrationality of the real society, Human depression and distortion.