从《大都会》看德里罗对后现代日常生活的书写

The Writing of Post-Modern Everyday Life in Don DeLillo’s Metropolis

唐·德里罗在其小说《大都会》中,借主人公埃里克在城市街道一天的穿梭之旅,展现了美国后现代日常生活的驳杂性。这条街上的日常活动,既反映出网络资本的强大操控和转化力量,又体现了媒介和图像对日常生活的全方位主宰。但日常生活并非全是网络资本和媒介图像的被动演练场,小说里的人物以强烈的主体意识,开展了颇具反抗精神的实践活动,尽管这种反抗只是一种暂时的解脱,最终难逃被资本收编的命运。正是通过对纽约日常生活的书写,表现出德里罗对美国后现代状况的深刻反思。

By depicting Eric Packer’s one day trip through the city streets,Don DeLillo’s Metropolis shows the complexity of everyday life in post-modern America.The daily activities in this street not only demonstrate the manipulating and transforming power of the network capital,but also reflect the dominance of omnipresent media images in everyday life.However,daily life is not necessarily a passive field where network capital and media images perform their functions.The main characters in the novel,with their strong sense of subjectivity and fighting spirit,adopt different practical ways to resist,although this resistance is only a temporary and ineffective relief,and it will be absorbed by capital forces.It is through the writing of everyday New York life that the writer makes his profound reflection on the post-modern culture of the United States.