黑色幽默似乎是美國20世紀中后期后現代主義小說的標記。其實,黑色幽默也是新現實主義小說家卡佛短篇小說的主要基調。本文首先試圖勾勒出20世紀美國現代主義、新現實主義、后現代主義小說之間相關聯的主題和文風,進而聚焦卡佛代表作中與前輩小說家有傳承而又獨特的黑色幽默。

Black humor seems to be an exclusive hallmark of American postmodernist fiction.However,it happens to be typical of Carver,a neo-realist,too.The paper attempts firstly to contextualize the thematic and stylistic common ground for modernist,postmodernist,and neo-realist fiction,so as to focus on the black humor in Carver,where his innovation,modernist and postmodernist legacies converge.