○知識小燈泡●-黑色喜劇

"Black comedy" or "black humor": baleful, naive, or inept

characters in a fantastic or nightmarish modern world play

out their roles in what Ionesco called a "tragic farce," in which

the events are often simultaneously comic, horrifying, and

absurd. (From “A Glossary of Literature Terms”)


黑色喜劇（又稱黑色幽默）：利用在這個荒唐或是充滿恐懼的現

代社會中那些滿懷痛苦、天真或是行為笨拙的人物個性來詮釋在

所謂「悲鬧劇」中的角色，而這樣的戲劇作品同時也會顯得更加

滑稽可笑、恐怖至極和荒誕不經。


Black humor: In literature, drama, and film, grotesque or

morbid humor used to express the absurdity, insensitivity,

paradox, and cruelty of the modern world. Ordinary

characters or situations are usually exaggerated far beyond

the limits of normal satire or irony. Black humor uses devices

often associated with tragedy and is sometimes equated with

tragic farce. (From Columbia Encyclopedia)


黑色幽默：在文學、戲劇或是電影中用來表現現代社會中的荒

誕、漠視、充滿矛盾以及殘酷之處。通常會將日常生活中的人

物或狀況用極度誇張的手法來表現，遠遠超乎一般的諷刺手法

或是諷刺文學作品。而黑色幽默的表現手法往往帶有悲劇的成

分，有時亦等同於悲鬧劇。


Tragicomedy in late developments: Gotthold Lessing (a German

writer) defined it as a mixture of emotions in which “seriousness

stimulates laughter, and pain pleasure.” Even more commonly,

tragicomedy's affinity with satire and "dark" comedy have

suggested a tragicomic impulse in modern absurdist drama.

(From Wikipedia)


悲喜劇（或是悲鬧劇）：在近代的發展中，德國作家

Ｇｏｔｔｈｏｌｄ　Ｌｅｓｓｉｎｇ定義悲喜劇是「

嚴肅卻可笑和痛苦卻快樂」等情感的綜合體。而較一

般的說法是，悲喜劇和諷刺作品以及「黑暗」喜劇的

風格傾向啟發了在現代荒謬戲劇中帶入悲喜劇性此刺

激發展的概念。


翻譯：楊雅筑