Literature of the Absurd

荒诞派文学

The term is applied to a number of works in drama and prose fiction which have in common the sense that human condition is essentially absurd, and that this condition can be adequately represented only in works of literature that are themselves absurd. Representative works include Eugène Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, etc.

荒诞派文学指那些共同意识到人类状况在本质上荒诞不经、且这种状况只有通过自身荒诞的文学作品才能得到恰当表现的戏剧和小说作品，代表作品有尤金·尤内斯库的《秃头歌女》、塞缪尔·贝克特的《等待戈多》等。