爱德华.阿尔比是继尤金.奥尼尔、田纳西.威廉姆斯和阿瑟.密勒之后美国当代剧坛上涌现出的又一位戏剧大家。其作品深受萨特的存在主义哲学思想影响,体现出典型的欧洲荒诞戏剧特点,即强调人类生存的虚无本质和周围世界的冷漠无情。然而,阿尔比的多数戏剧作品在除去荒诞的形式外衣之后,在更深层面上则表现出对美国当代社会问题的现实性思考和批判。本文以阿尔比早期代表作品《美国梦》为例,着重分析作家是如何通过荒诞戏剧的艺术形式来实现对美国当前所谓“富裕”社会的批判和抨击。 Edward Albi is yet another dramatist on the American contemporary scene following Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. His works are deeply influenced by Sartre’s Existentialist philosophy and reflect the typical European absurd drama, which emphasizes the essence of human existence and the indifference of the surrounding world. However, after removing the absurd formal cloak, most of Albi’s dramatic productions show, at a deeper level, realistic thinking and criticism of contemporary American social issues. This paper takes Albi’s early representative work “The American Dream” as an example, focusing on how writers realized the criticism and attack on the current so-called “affluent” society in the United States through the art form of absurd drama.