误认与都市现代性体验——论《上海的狐步舞(一个断片)》

Misrecognition and Modern Metropolitan Experience: On Shanghai Fox Trot(A Segment)

《上海的狐步舞(一个断片)》通常被认为是穆时英小说技巧的集大成之作。其小说中的错格现象是这篇小说精致结构中的一个瑕疵,而它又是由于穆时英本人向小说人物投射过于强烈的情感造成的。小说中潜隐着"误认"这一主题,穆时英对"误认"主题的书写,成功地捕捉到一种典型的都市现代性体验。然而每当穆时英书写这一现代性体验时,其写作都会表现出某种游移与慌乱的特质,这使得其作品无法称得上真正意义的现代主义写作。

Shanghai Fox Trot （A Segment） is generally regarded as a masterpiece displaying Mu Shiying＇ s novelistic skills. The anacoluthon, formed because Mu pours too strong feelings into the characters, is a shortcoming of this novel with delicate structure. ＂Misrecognition＂ is a hidden theme in the novel. Though Mu＇ s writing of this theme successfully captures typical modern metropolitan experience, Mu＇ s depicting of this kind of experience is unstable and restless, and for this reason the novel cannot be listed among the real modernist writings.