转身中的保罗·奥斯特城市景观书写嬗变

On Shift of Paul Auster's City Writing

当代美国作家保罗·奥斯特堪称纽约的代言人。从《纽约三部曲》(1987)到《布鲁克林的荒唐事》(2005)和《日落公园》(2010),可以明显感受到在经历了2001年的恐怖袭击,2008年的次贷金融危机之后,奥斯特在这一系列城市描摹中从后现代主义向现实主义转身的指向性愈发明显。本文将从城市的主体体验、城市的空间形式和城市的叙事时间三个维度来探讨转身中的奥斯特城市景观书写嬗变。这一转变深刻地反映出在创伤社会中人们希望城市成为重建主体身份的归属地、群体栖居的空间、成为走出创伤阴影、开始新生活的起始地。

Paul Auster, contemporary American writer, can be regarded as a spokesman for New York. From New York Trilo- gy, through The Brooklyn Follies, to Sunset Park, Auster is turning from postmodernism to realism in his city writing after 9/ 11 in 2001 and the economic crisis in 2008. This article intends to analyze this shift from three perspectives： senses＇ experi- ences of city, city＇ s spatial form, and city＇ s temporal narrative so as to uncover that in a traumatized society, people hope that their city will be a place for reconstructing lost identity and a locale for groups.