地理空间的叙事功能——对张欣广州书写的一种解读

The Narrative Function of Geographical Space——An Interpretation of Zhang Xin's Writing of Guangzhou

张欣以广州为地理背景的都市题材小说,是当代文学中一个难以忽视的存在,小说中出现的诸多地理空间和景观,不单是为了情节的展开建构坐标系,同时也承担着推动叙事进程、塑造人物性格、表现作品主题等重要功能,并在此基础上塑造了小说的美学风格。张欣小说以带有隐喻意味的想象性空间作为外部表征,呈现出作家对于世界和人性的思考。

Zhang Xin’s urban novel of Guangzhou as its geographical background is an existence that can not be ignored in contemporary literature. Many geographic spaces and landscapes in the novel are not only the coordinate system for plot development,but also play an important role in promoting the narrative process,shaping the characters’ personality and expressing the theme of the works. On this basis,the aesthetic style of the novel is molded,and the imaginative space with metaphorical meaning is taken as the external representation,showing the writer’s thinking about the world and human nature.