论《妈阁是座城》之城与人

City and People in Mage,a City

妈阁城的身份指向了它特有的文化特质,城市中的人群中可看到城市在塑造个体的个性特质过程中的作用,他们提供了一种看待城市的方式。聚集在妈阁城中的赌徒身上有着妈阁城的印记,反过来个体的行为又影响了城市的文化走向,但是妈阁城并不是这些赌徒迷恋于赌博的原因,是民族的劣根性使然。被诱发的赌性使人性沦落,使道德丧失到最底层,严歌苓在其中将赌博扩大为一个"妈阁性",并升华为国民劣根性。小说对城中人的剖析通过身体指向灵魂,通过外在和内在的双重沦落来完成。

The identity of A- Ma City refers to its unique cultural characteristics,People in the city can be seen that the city＇s roles of modeling their individual personality in the process,which provide a way to view the city. The images of the gamblers who gathered in Mage cityin return influence the cultural trend of the city,it is not the city that makes them addict in gambling,but the deep- rooted bad habits of the nation. The invoked nature of gambling makes their humanity reduced,their morality lose to the lowest level,Yan Geling,the author of this novel,expands these gamblers as a gender of Mage,and sublimates as the national bad habit. In this novel,theses gamblers have been thoroughly dissected from the body to the soul,and from the outer to the inner.