叶辛的《华都》:上海史背景前的当代激情中年

华都大楼中居住的中年女性各有风韵,她们曾经插队在山乡,精神与生理的压抑使之在今天的大都市里的奔放性格有了铺垫和原因,一位社会学家促成了她们的身体书写,释放个性。老上海的影星骆秀音、新时期电台播音员林月,她们的悲欢故事形成叠印,而从乡村来的钟点工小秋却预示上海年青女性的新的未来。加之比较文学中新的审美发现与感受,如骆秀音与王安忆《长恨歌》中的王琦瑶;如姚征冬与赵长天《不是忏悔》中的卞海亮。叶辛的《华都》是海派小说的新收获。

Ardent Middle-Aged Women of Our Time Against Historical Shanghai--On Characters in Hua Du written by Ye Xin

Hua Du, written by Ye Xin, portrays a series of middle-aged women who once went to live and work in a production team in the countryside and were constrained mentally and psychologically. It is the so-called sociologist who freed them and made them the unbridled women of the metropolis. While Lin Yue, the present radio announcer, and Luo Xiu-yin, the film star of old Shanghai, match each other very well, Xiao Qiu, the hourly working-girl from the countryside foretells the future of modern women in Shanghai. Compared with the characters of Ye Xin's other fiction, these ardent middle-age women in Hua Du have many new features of Shanghai school of writers' literary works.