作为文本的城市:纽约与苏珊·桑塔格

The City as Text:New York and Susan Sontag

苏珊·桑塔格的小说创作是一个充满纷繁复杂意象和各种表现手法的艺术体系,空间在这一体系中具有特殊的功能和意义。本文以她的短篇小说《心问》为主要研究对象,一方面分析它如何利用独特的知觉叙事围绕纽约进行空间建构和意象描绘,另一方面探讨迷宫城市意象对20世纪六七十年代纽约的城市发展、社会变迁、文化演进的表征,并进一步结合作者其他作品中的空间书写探究空间在其小说创作中的前置地位和生产功能,以及作者的独特空间观对其文学观的构成性影响。

Susan Sontag＇s works of fiction are an artistic system embedded with different writing techniques and various literary images, in which space has special functions and great significance. Taking her short story ＂Debriefing＂ as the main material for close observation, this essay analyzes the way in which distinctive sensory narration represents New York＇s urban spaces and urban image of a labyrinth, and argues that this labyrinth image reflects the urban regression, social changes and cultural evolution of New York City during 1960s-1970s. This essay also claims that ＂space＂ is always foregrounded in Sontag＇s fiction-writing and helps to produce values in the texts, and explores the constitutive effects on her literary conception brought by her unique temporal-spatial view.