《儒林外史》与黑色幽默

The Unofficial History of the Academic Circles and Black Humors

《儒林外史》被鲁迅称作是中国讽刺小说的杰出作品。但是,鲁迅所说的讽刺与现代美学意义上的讽刺是有区别的,把《儒林外史》看成是幽默小说更具合理性。《儒林外史》的幽默是悲伤、冷峻、绝望、荒诞的幽默,和美国文学流派中的“黑色幽默”有许多相同之处,都是作者对残酷现实的一种过激的心理反应。

The Unofficial History of the Academic Circles is looked on as a masterpiece of China's ironic fictions by Lu Xun,bat the irony mentioned by Lu Xun is different from the irony from the view of the modern aesthetics; it's more reasonable to look on the Unofficial History of the Academic Circles as a humorous fiction. The humors of the Unofficial History of the Academic Circles are humors of sadness, inexorability, despair and ridiculousness, which share many similarities with the black humors of the American literature genre; they are both extreme mental responses to the cruel facts made by the authors.