从张爱玲到葛亮:城市想象的流变

From Eileen Chang to Ge Liang:the Change of Urban Imagination over Time

与张爱玲的“双城记”相似,葛亮同样热衷于对“家城”和“异乡”的书写。两位作家均关注都市生活,将笔触深入日常肌理,与此同时,葛亮的城市想象又有新变之处。葛亮突破了张爱玲笔下都市空间和时间的局限,城市想象的空间由封闭变为开阔,时间也由静态变为动态。他一改张爱玲对时代和历史的规避,在凸显影响人物命运的历史因素的基础上,进一步深化了人城相生的书写方式。相比之下,葛亮的城市想象更多地承续了新文学启蒙的火种,由乱世中的悼亡转为时代洪流下的缅怀。

Like Eileen Chang,with her‘A tale of two cities,’Ge Liang is also keen on writing about‘home city’and‘foreign land,’as both of them are concerned with city life,getting deep into the texture of the quotidian.At the same time,though,Ge Liang’s imagination experienced a new change in that he broke through the limitations of urban space and time under Chang’s pen as space of city imagination became expansive instead of being closed up,and time also turned from static to dynamic,when he,unlike Chang who avoided the times and history,further deepened the method of writing about how people and the city live together,based on the historical factors that prominently influence the fate of the characters.By comparison,Ge Liang’s city imagination takes its cue from the enlightenment of the new literature by turning from a mourning for the messy times to a nostalgia for the torrent of the times.