《曼哈顿中转站》:城市空间叙事的审美逻辑

On the Aesthetic Logic of the Narration of Urban Spatial Scenes in John Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer

多斯·帕索斯的小说《曼哈顿中转站》借助于城市空间的同时性场景叙事完成了对纽约现代城市生活的全景扫描。该小说独特的叙事模式一直以来为人所称道,但其背后复杂的审美逻辑问题似乎有被忽视之嫌。本文以此为关注点,探讨历史语境下《曼哈顿中转站》城市空间化叙事所表达的时代性审美诉求与都市生活新的时空特征之关联,以及作者在支离破碎的城市主题下对于现代主义总体性的艺术追求。

With the help of the simultaneous scene narration of urban space,John Dos Passos’s novel Manhattan Transfer completed the panoramic scanning of modern urban life in New York.The novel’s unique narrative mode has always been praised,but the complex aesthetic logic behind it seems to ignored.With this as the focus and in the historical context,this paper discusses the relationship between the aesthetic appeal of the times expressed in the urban spatialization narrative of Manhattan Transfer and the new space-time characteristics of urban life,as well as the author’s artistic pursuit of the totality of modernism under the fragmented urban theme.