后新时期以来知青作家的城市批判

City Criticism of the Educated Youth Writers since the Post-New Period

后新时期以来知青作家致力于城市题材书写,尤其着力于城市文化批判。在此类作品中,一方面主人公的物质欲望、身体诉求由匮乏转向过剩,拜金、拜物等倾向凸显;另一方面主人公的精神追求、灵魂诉求日趋弱化,曾被奉为珍宝的书籍、知识等概念褪去光彩乃至被轻视。欲望类型在作品中的此消彼长,透射出知青作家对时代变迁的敏锐感知,体现了对当代市民精神状态的深刻体察,暗含了对当下人文精神步入危机的忧虑和批判。从历史和共时两个维度予以观察和比较,才能更清晰地认识知青作家城市书写的独特之处及价值。当然,这种书写和批判中的某些片面性和极端性也值得反思。

Since the post-new period,educated youth writers have devoted themselves to the subject of city life,especially focusing on urban culture criticism.In such works,the protagonists,with limited material desires and physical demands,are increasingly worshipping money and becoming more materialistic.Simultaneously,their spiritual pursuits and perceptual appeals are weakened,since those precious books and knowledge are neglected and faded away.The more or less accurate description of desires in these works reflects writers’keen observation of the changing times,which embodies a deep understanding of the mental state of the contemporary people,and implies the worries and criticism of the humanism in crisis under the market economy.It is through the observation and comparison from the dimensions of history and synchronicity that the uniqueness and value of the city writing of the educated youth writers be clearly understood.Of course,certain extremities and one-sidedness in the writing and criticism are also worth of reflection.