通過鬼魅與自我相遇——論平路＜微雨魂魄＞中的公寓身體及其鬼魅敘事的「文類」特質

Meet with self through Ghost–The apartmental body in ”Soul in Drizzle ”,the fiction of Ping Lu and function of ghost narrative

本論文為系列論述鬼魅敘事的論文之一，試圖針對平路＜微雨魂魄＞中進入中年、情婦身份的女主角，因為必須處理住居舊公寓天花板上發現的一塊水漬，而面臨的鬼魅遭遇進行解讀。她的鬼魅遭遇包括聽到樓上死去女子空屋自響的電話聲、自動滲漏的水漬，穿牆而入的煙味、無人自開的電梯，以及發現樓上女子與她同為情婦的處境。這些遭遇和她與情夫食之無味棄之可惜的關係逐漸牽纏、交織、對立與推拒，最終使主角發現自己。 平路＜微雨魂魄＞一作收入於其被認為自寫作以來最好的一本的《凝脂溫泉》書中，該書中包括＜暗香餘事＞＜凝脂溫泉＞等都以舊公寓為文本的情節空間，而目前為止也已出現若干分別從性別、權力、身體、空間、認同等面向進行的評論。本論文嘗試另闢蹊徑，從作者如何藉由鬼魅敘事作為與文本中這位中年女性與自我相遇的揭露模式切入，一方面說明＜微雨魂魄＞一作中主角如何在鬼魅經驗的行動與實踐中將「私有但不擁有的空間」翻轉為「孤獨卻擁有自己的地方」；另方面試圖說明「鬼魅敘事」如何可以將現代都市空間中有如「碎片」的「公寓」，與潰散在都市中的女性體驗相聯結，成為一種帶有高度隱喻性質的「公寓身體」。換言之，溝通幽明的「鬼魅」敘事，是一「翻譯空間」，是一透過「他我」與自我相遇的邊界經驗。本文將嘗試指出此一「鬼魅敘事」的「文類」特質及其功能性。

This is one of papers about ghost narrative. The paper focuses on the middle-aged female character's ghostly encounter in ”Soul in Drizzle ”,the story of Ping Lu. These ghostly encounters include a seeping pipe from a toilet, smoke which appears through the wall, lift which opens automatically, and a phone which rings by itself. When this female character finds a stain on the ceiling of her bedroom, the old apartment where she lives with her man, another woman's husband. She suddenly realises how fragile and unfulfilling her relationship is with this man. So, she begins to fight with this man and cause a life in the relationship between herself and that man, starting from the entangled, to the interweaved, the opposed, and then to the refusal. Finally, she finds herself. This fiction is included in a book entitled“Clotted Spring”, containing three stories that revolvedaround the same image—an old apartment. This is considered to be the best work of Ping Lu's so far. Some papers which have previously discussed issues such as sex, power, body, space, identity, are based on this book, however, my paper is trying to create a different discussion from another perspective, the revealing model of how this middle-aged major female character, the narrator of this story, finds herself through ghostly experiences. This is not only a way to transfer the experience from“the place where she is but not owning ”to“ the place where she feels at home even when she is alone ”,but also a metaphor which symbolizes a fragment of urban life by linking her experiences which are scattered in city life. In other words, the ghost narration is, a way to explore secluded minds and explain visible situations, like a translation of space, a transitional experience where she can find herself through an alter ego. This paper is trying to indicate the function of ghost narratives by taking it as a genre.