《半下流社會》、《藍與黑》的身體書寫與理想空間

A Discussion of Somatic Expression and Ideal Space of the Novels “Halfway Down” and “The Blue and the Black”

《半下流社會》及《藍與黑》皆以人物受難、流亡、兩女一男的情 愛糾葛為故事主軸，且同以兩位女性角色與境遇相對的超昇與沉淪作為 小說的結局，都以城市場域為主要背景，皆觸及臺灣、香港兩處地理空 間，並以對當前環境的拒斥或忽略而反證出往昔時空的美好。本文考掘 這兩本作品如何透過小說敘事與隱喻的功能，使身體成為一具有符碼意 涵的多元空間，表述作者對於當時國家處境裂變的想法，並藉由身體空 間輻射出精神重於物質的形上美學。五○年代的外省男性文人，建構 「時空錯置的桃花源」，藉以抵禦與跨越無力負荷的現實閾限，《半下流 社會》及《藍與黑》的理想空間並不真實存在，而是一種形而上的靈域 聖境，歷經流亡之苦的漂泊者，在神所應許的家國重建樂園。本文將這 兩部作品抽離原本的觀測脈絡，透過文獻探討、文本分析、比對研究， 試圖讓這兩部長篇小說輻射出不同向度的意義與價值。

 

The novels Halfway Down and The Blue and the Black adopted suffering, exile, and a romantic love triangle of one man and two women as narrative spindle; both novels employed a relative relationship between ascending of two heroines and sinking of the surrounding as ending. These two works recruited urban scenes to be the main story background, which involved Taiwan and Hong Kong regions, moreover, through the approach of rejection or disregarding current circumstances to remind the beautiful memories in former times, further to highlight the object of anti-communist and nation restoration. This study excavated and discussed how anti-communist literature utilized the narrative and metaphor capacity of novels to transform a body into a multidimensional space with symbolic meanings; additionally, it expressed the historical dilemma of secession situation at that time as well as the spiritual-focus (vs. material) metaphysical aesthetics radiated by somatic space. In the 1950s, male anti-communist literati constructed a “mis-spatiotemporal utopia” in order to resist and across the unaffordable realistic threshold. The ideal space of anti-communist literature did not actually exist; however, it demonstrated a metaphysical sacred domain where the exiled wanderers could rebuild paradise in the nation God hath promised. In this study, the author extracted these two works from the traditional observation pattern through literature review, text analysis, and comparative study, aimed to reveal the significant meaning and values in different dimensions of these two classic anti-communist literatures.