What is "black humor"?

Black humor is also called "gallows humor" and can also be translated as "disaster humor". In addition, it is also called "morbid humor", "black comedy" and "desperate comedy". "Black" means despair, pain, terror and cruelty. "Black humor" is very different from traditional normal humor: the ideological basis of traditional humor is optimism, and people believe that good can finally overcome evil and bring a relaxed, happy and bright smile; The ideological basis of black humor is pessimism. Since facing death and absurdity, we can only laugh at the extreme pain and turn it into laughter. We can only make fun of the pain disapprovingly, and express the connotation of tragedy in a comedy way, thus brewing a bitter and gloomy smile. Black humor is deeply influenced by existentialism, and its main content lies in expressing the absurdity of the world. The difference is that black humor writers are more negative and pessimistic, and they deny the possibility of individuals choosing positive actions. In the face of absurdity, the only thing we can do is to cynically give a helpless wry smile to temporarily relieve the painful mood. It is precisely because of their humorous attitude towards life that they have distanced themselves from the bleak reality and changed the surprised, confused and angry mentality of absurd writers in the past. Instead, they regard absurdity as a reasonable existence and then describe it calmly to maintain a psychological balance in a desperate situation. Black humor is known as "absurd novel", and it also expresses absurd content in absurd form. Writers abandon the narrative principles of traditional novels, break the general grammatical rules, and use exaggeration, paradox, irony and restrained indifference to create. The scene is extraordinary, the plot is scattered and bizarre, the characters are funny, and the language is wise and sharp. Write sadness with joy, and achieve great success.