论《人间天堂》中的游牧书写与消费异化批判

On the Nomadic Writing and Criticism on Consumerist Alienation in This Side of Paradise

菲茨杰拉德在其首部小说《人间天堂》中并未显露出后续作品中对消费社会一贯的幻灭态度,而是在叙事主线外隐晦提出了一种反抗消费异化社会的可行方案。以德勒兹的游牧哲学观之,菲茨杰拉德对抗异化的革命姿态在其远离城市的滨海旅行中初见端倪,并在以哥特叙事对现实空间实施解域的事件中得到强化。有别于纯粹悲观的逃逸策略,菲茨杰拉德在小说后半段将主人公塑造为“都市牧民”的形象,从主体存在论层面出发思考一种孑然于消费符码空间内的抵抗姿态。

In his first novel This Side of Paradise,Fitzgerald doesn’t present his consistent disillusionment towards the consumerist society manifested in his later works,on the contrary implicitly puts forward a feasible scheme to resist the alienation caused by the society of consumerism outside his main narrative line.From the perspective of Deleuze’s nomadic philosophy,Amory’s revolutionary attitude towards consumerism is initially revealed in his coastal travel away from urban areas,and is strengthened in the event of deterritorialization through Fitzgerald’s Gothic narratives.Distinguished from a completely pessimistic strategy of escape,Fitzgerald shapes Amory as an“urban nomad”in the second half of the novel,pondering a kind of resistance attitude isolating from the coded space of consumerism from the perspective of subject ontology.