让-菲利普·图森小说中的城市过渡空间

Urban Transitional Space in Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s Novels

图森小说中的城市过渡空间首先传达了现代城市复杂的、令人迷惑和不安的一面,又是打开城市缺口、打破日常和已知、激荡想象力的地带。其次,它体现了矛盾的社交关系,既在孤立的个体间建立了联系,甚至助推亲密关系的建立,又在关系中设置屏障,使人与人无法真正地靠近。它建立了一种程式化、契约式的人际关系,揭示了人和他人、人和自我不可弥合的距离。最后,城市过渡空间集中体现了现代社会对速度和效率的追求。个体在此过程中采取了不同的方式,或是超越或是抵抗或是顺应高速运动。人们既渴望在速度中获得亢奋的感官体验,又希望恢复慢与静止,在运动中获得永恒的片刻。

Urban transitional space in Toussaint’s novels conveys,firstly,the complex,confusing and unsettling aspects of the modern city.It can also be seen as a zone that opens up gaps in the city,breaks down the routine and the known,and excites imagination.Secondly,such space reflects paradoxical social relations.On the one hand,it allows isolated individuals to connect with each other,and even contributes to the establishment of intimate relationships;on the other hand,it sets up barriers so that people cannot be truly close to each other.Besides,it has established a stylized and contractual interpersonal relationship,revealing the unbridgeable distance between people and others as well as themselves.Finally,urban transitional space embodies the quest for speed and efficiency in modern society.In this process,individuals take different ways,to surpass,resist,or adapt to the high-speed movement.People long for the exhilarating sensory experience of speed,but they also want to regain slowness and stillness and get an eternal moment in the movement.