大卫·华莱士的当代“城市病”书写  

The Contemporary “Urban Disease” in David Foster Wallace's Works

作　　者：万晓蒙 Wan Xiaomeng(Department of English,Tongji University,Shanghai 200092,China)

机构地区：[1]同济大学外国语学院

出　　处：《外国文学研究》2024年第3期154-165,共12页Foreign Literature Studies

基　　金：上海市哲学社会科学规划课题“大卫·华莱士小说的‘城市病’书写研究”(2022ZWY008)。

摘　　要：随着城市化进程的迅速推进,人们在享受现代化生活的同时,也面临着新的危机与困境。这一点在大卫·华莱士的城市文学中得到了充分体现。华莱士的城市文学观颇具前沿性,贴近当下社会。其城市书写主要从城市空间中的身体隐喻、病态的群体价值观、小说文本对城市生活心理的模仿三方面展开,揭露当代大众普遍面临的娱乐至死、工作压力、信息过载等身心健康问题及与之相关的反智主义、功利主义等道德伦理危机。同时,从华氏“城市病”书写的写作观念与创新手法中,亦可管窥城市文学这一分支在当代发展出的新形态。The fast growth of urbanization provided people with the convenience of modern lifestyle as well as newly-emerged crises and problems,which is fully manifested in David Foster Wallace's urban fictions.Wallace's cutting-edge perspective of urban fiction is evident in three aspects:the body metaphor in city space,distorted collective values,and textual imitation of urban mindset.His observation of contemporary urban life discloses the pervasive physical and psychological problems of the masses,including entertainment addiction,high pressure at work,and information overload,which also indicates moral and ethical crises like anti-intellectualism and utilitarianism.Meanwhile,Wallace's creative ideas and innovative techniques in writing“urban disease”represent the new development of urban fiction in the new era.

关 键 词：大卫·福斯特·华莱士 城市文学 疾病 

分 类 号：I712.074[文学—其他各国文学]