In the contemporary novelists'eyes,the universe is out of joint.It is a tragic place to live.So these novelists offer a kind of comedy which verges on being grotesque.The tragic absurdity of the human condition is seen in their works as a comic joke.The response they intend to provoke in the reader to the blackness of modern life is laughter.Thus black humor,or black comedy is one of the commonly employed devices of the novelists of the absurd.