论张爱玲小说的时间特性

张爱玲在她的小说中把不同时间和空间中的事件和场景组合拼凑在一起，表现了时间及人的意识的跳跃性与无序性。她也写出了一个“没有钟”的“荒蛮的岁月”——凝滞得如千百年汩汩东流去的江水一样恒长的时间现状及在这凝滞时间中人的意识的高度流动。她还截取时间的一个片段，表述了个体生命“瞬间”的感受和体验。钟则是张爱玲小说中经常采用的时间象征意象，对人物本身有着特殊的启示。人物意识的韵律流经时间就如同穿越隧道，钟声正像起伏跌宕的意识流动的坐标。张爱玲的小说充分表现了与人的存在姿态相关的时间特性，具体表现为时间的跳跃性、凝滞性、瞬时性、象征性。

The Characteristics of Time in Zhang Ailing's Novels

In her novels, Zhang Ailing puts the incidents and settings in different time and space together, which shows the jumping and disorder of time and human consciousness. She has written an abandoned era in which there is no clock and the time is as long as the river that runs eastward. And she has also written the fastest flow of humans consciousness. In the meantime, she cuts down a period of the time so as to show the instant feeling and experience of the individual. Clocks that have a particular meaning to characters are the common symbolic image in her novels. The consciousness of people flow with the time passing just like through tunnels. And the sound of clocks is like the coordinate of the consciousness flow. Zhang Ailing's novels reflect the characteristics of time that is relevant to the people's survival conditions, which is jumping, staging, instant and symbolic.