试论张爱玲眼中的现代城市文明——以《倾城之恋》为例

On the Zhang Ailing's Perspective of the Modern Urban Civilization

张爱玲被公认为城市文学或曰市民文学的代表,她的作品主要描写现代都市上海、香港中各类人物的生存状况,而尤以描写封建没落贵族生活的作品为最佳。小说《倾城之恋》可作为这方面的代表。从张爱玲对其主人公生活的细节描绘中,一方面可反映出她对传统文明和现代城市文明的态度;另一方面,也折射出她对启蒙话语和现代性话语的复杂而矛盾的心理。

Zhang Ailing is recognized as the representatives of the urban literature.Her works mainly describes various characters in the modern city,and especially the works on the living conditions of the declining feudal aristocracy is the best in her whole works.The novel Love in the city can be seen the representative in this regard.The detailed description of the mail characters in this novel can reflect Zhang＇s attitude to the traditional civilization and modern civilization.On the other hand,they can also reflect her complex ideas about the discourse of the enlightment and modernity.