刹那空间的后情感魅影——试论当代都市小说的影像化叙事倾向及其危机

Postemotional Phantom in Elusive Space——A discussion on the trend of visualization narration in contemporary city novels and the consequent crisis

作为"视觉文化"历史图式中文学突围的现实策略,小说创作中的影像化叙事开始全面渗入当代都市书写之中。这样的小说具备鲜明的镜头感,将一个个瞬间的、现时的、片段的空间画面呈现于读者眼前,迎合了当下读者感官化、惰性的审美心理。但在此类叙事文本中,艺术语言的模糊性、多义性、弥散性被淡化,作品的深度想象空间逐渐被类似影像叙事的直接的视觉感知所蚕食,从而遮蔽了读者对现实真正的感受,使其陷入"后情感"而不自知。

As a practical strategy for literature to break through the siege of visual culture,visualization narration begins to prevail in the contemporary city novels.Novels of this style are greatly characterized by similar effects created by film shots which display segments of flashing pictures.Although visualization narration caters for the aesthetic psychology of present-day readers who are indolent and satisfied with sensual pleasures,the novel’s mental space for deep thinking is appropriated by the immediate visual perception which is characteristic of film shots.As a result,the glamour of the traditional artistic language featuring fuzziness and polysemousness gets weakened,and the readers are shielded from the real world and unconsciously trapped in postemotion.