高樓與商場：可洛、陳志華、韓麗珠的超密度城市空間書寫

Skyscrapers and Shopping Malls: Writing the Hyper Density City by Ho Lok, Chan Chi-wa, and Hon Lai-chu

Abstract

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.

自從西西《我城》（1975）出版以來，以香港城市空間爲想象起點的作品漸次出現，當中不少出於“後九七香港青年作家”之手。他們的創作風格多元，但自覺地以小説書寫1997年以後的香港城市空間，或從城市空間生發各種文學想象的取向，幾無二致。本文聚焦於三位“後九七香港青年作家”：可洛、陳志華，韓麗珠，以他們小説的城市空間想象爲切人點，考察他們筆下的超密度城市空間。本文發掘小説呈現的香港城市空間特色一一首先是資本塑造而成的超密度，其次是全面商場化的空間運用。通過闡釋“後九七香港青年作家”構築的各種文字城市（“O城”“幻城”“H地”），本文繼而探討小説如何展現青年作家對香港的憂思，以及作家如何嘗試通過召唤想象力來重塑城市空間。

Ever since Xixi’s My City was published in 1975, literary works inspired by the topic of “Hong Kong City Space” have gradually increased. Most of these are written by post-1997 young Hong Kong novelists. Despite their diverse and creative writing styles, these novelists share a common theme in their writings, i.e., the city space in Hong Kong. Based on the hyper density cities described in O City by Chan Chi-wa, Phantomcity by Ho Lok, and Area H by Hon Lai-chu, this article aims to elucidate the characteristics of Hong Kong city spaces and how they have been shaped by capital-driven hyper density and mall-like space application. It also discusses how the novelists’ melancholy feelings towards the city of post-1997 Hong Kong are manifested in their writings and how they use their imaginations to reshape the city space of Hong Kong.