薛忆沩的深圳提喻法——论《出租车司机》的都市想象

Xue Yiwei's Synecdoche of Shenzhen——City Images in The Taxi Driver

薛忆沩2013年出版的"深圳人"系列小说集《出租车司机》,是近年来都市文学中一次经典化写作的尝试。在这部小说集中,薛忆沩一方面向乔伊斯以来的现代主义都市想象传统致敬,另一方面又发展了他自己的特色,并且试图借助深圳这个有特色的城市背景,来展示现代都市中人的内心经验。城市的核心是人,而人的存在状态直接体现了城市的根本特质。如何把握和转化当代的都市经验,是每个当代作家所必须面对的难题。薛忆沩的这部小说集提供了一个关于都市经验叙述内在转向的可能性。

The Taxi Driver, Xue Yiwei’s collection of short stories about “Shenzhenese” was published in 2013. It is a classical attempt of urban writing. In these stories, Xue Yiwei tried to pay a tribute to modernist city images represented by the works of James Joys. On the other hand, he also managed to show his own style of urban writing. He used the image of Shenzhen as a distinctive background to reveal the mental experience of city dwellers. How to comprehend and express the modern urban experience is a difficult problem faced by all the contemporary writers. Xue Yiwei’s experimental writing in The Taxi Driver may give us some inspirations.