彼岸与地上的越境:《D市七月叙景(一)》的空间表象

Crossing the Other Shore and the Ground:the Spatial Representation of D City in July Scenery (Ⅰ)

日本现代作家中岛敦的《D市七月叙景(一)》是一篇带有无产阶级文学色彩的作品。该作品以曾经的大连为舞台,用三个独立的片段,分别展示了“M”公司的总裁“Y”氏、“M”公司的职员,以及两名中国苦力在某个夏日的生活场景。作者通过戏剧化的手法,抹去了这三种人物之间的阶级落差,将殖民者和被殖民者放在同一个维度里来加以审视。在殖民地空间中,原本作为被奴役对象的苦力获得了精神上的满足感,而作为殖民者的“M”公司的总裁及其职员却遭遇了极大的精神上的不安。正是在人物命运所发生的如是逆转中,凸显了本作的批判性意义,否定了日本对中国殖民统治的正当性。

The Japanese modern writer Nakajima Atsushi’s D City in July Scenery(I)is a work with proletarian literature color.Taking Dalian,the former colony of Japan,as the stage,the work uses three independent segments to show the life scenes of the president of“M”company,the staff of“M”company and two Chinese coolies in a certain summer.By means of dramatization,the author obliterates the class gaps among the three characters and examines the colonists and the colonized in the same dimension.In the colonial space,the coolis,as the enslaved object,gain spiritual satisfaction,while the president and his staff of“M”company,as the colonists,encounter great spiritual uneasiness.It is in the reversal of the fate of the characters that the critical significance of the work is highlighted and the legitimacy of Japanese colonial rule over China is deined.