Black humor, has mocking look to illness form, terrible and horrible situations and is often with presentiment, pain, fear, sadness and absurdity associated. The prevalence's of this type of humor in the West, were political and social situation, Hegel's philosophical views and black novels. The term black humor (from the French humor noir) was coined by the surrealist theoretician, André Breton in 1935 to describe the concept of Hegel's «objectify subjectivity» and he introduced Jonathan Swift as pioneer of this type in anthology of black humor. According to the ideas of the Surrealists, about black humor, the important features of it in fiction literature include: conflict, exaggerated, metamorphosis and transformation, deviation of issue(subject), description and gothic atmosphere. These characteristics, seems in stories of pioneer writers; Sadegh Hedayat, Gholam Hossein Saeedi and Bahram Sadeghy. This article whit descriptive-analytical method defines black humor and studies it's prevalences and features in West and Iran fiction literature comparatively.
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(2016). Black humor in English and Persian stories based on surrealism school. Research in Contemporary World Literature, 21(2), 403-430. doi: 10.22059/jor.2016.61451
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Black humor in English and Persian stories based on surrealism school. Research in Contemporary World Literature, 2016; 21(2): 403-430. doi: 10.22059/jor.2016.61451