Black Humor and Sarcasm in Literature

[JohnAvg]

Which authors or specific books use these genres excessively?

[Lulim]

One comes to my mind immediately: "The Debt to Pleasure", by John Lanchester.

[DanielBenoit]

Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut definitley.

[stlukesguild]

William Faulkner As I lay Dying
Flannery O'Connor- Short Stories
Franz Kafka
Gunter Grass- The Tin Drum
Gogol- The Nose
Tomasso Landolfi- Gogol's Wife

[dfloyd]

Miss Lonely Heart by Nathaniel West.

[Idril]

The Soviets had a wonderfully dark sense of humour, Mikhail Bulgakov and Vladimir Voinovich are the first that pop into my head but as a rule, the Russian sense of humour tends towards the dark.

[Desolation]

Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Voltaire
Samuel Beckett
Hunter S. Thompson

[Lokasenna]

The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce is packed full of the most wondrous kind of sarcasm and cynicism. I love it!

[Dinkleberry2010]

Mark Twain especially in his later works is full of satire, so-called black humor, and cynicism.

[Veva]

A friend of mine, who managed to get through the whole Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, retold it to me and I think that it could be what you are looking for... ;) i guess..

[stlukesguild]

The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce is packed full of the most wondrous kind of sarcasm and cynicism. I love it!

Oh, definitely! And (as noted) Twain as well!:thumbs_up

[Vautrin]

Black Humor and Sarcasm in Literature

Author: Vonnegut is King.
Books: His entire body of work.