都市欲念衰退、病的隐喻与自我修行的失效——王宏图《无所动心》读后

The Decline of Urban Desire, Metaphor of Cancer and the Failure of Self-Cultivation:On Wang Hongtu’s Ataraxia

王宏图小说《无所动心》一方面通过对主人公徐生白“人过中年”的生理年龄与社会地位的设定,既延续又有别于作者过去作品中主人公的“忧郁”特质,而呈现出某种都市欲念衰退的主体转变迹象。另一方面作为隐喻的癌症在小说中既解释了主人公欲念衰退乃至精神滑坡的原因,同时又构成了一种新的都市感觉方式及表现形态。而对于以《庄子》为代表的传统文化资源的引入,则凸显出作者创作上的某种新变方向,以及这种精神力量在当代社会自身的限度之所在。

Wang Hongtu’s novel Ataraxia, through the setting of the physiological age and social status of Xu Shengbai who is “over middle age”, shows the decline of urban desire. Meanwhile, cancer as a metaphor in the novel not only explains the cause of the decline of the desire, even the spiritual decline, but also constitutes a new way of urban feeling and expression. The introduction of traditional cultural resources represented by Zhuangzi highlights the author’s new direction of creation and the limits of this spiritual power in contemporary society.