在中西方文化的碰撞与交融中,白先勇对叙事时间有了深入的探索和思考,形成了自己的独特认知:通过“今昔对比”来呈现出历史的沧桑与人世的无常;而随着创作实践的深入,空间叙事作为一种叙事技巧也逐渐成为白先勇自觉的艺术追求。在作品中,他将个体置身于游动的空间之中,让其在空间的转换中饱尝贫困与窘迫的滋味,从中表现纷繁复杂的人物命运。 In the collision and blending of Chinese and Western cultures, Bai Xianyong explored and thought about the time of narration in depth and formed his own unique cognition: the vicissitudes of history and the impermanence of the world through the comparison of past and present, With the deepening of creative practice, as a kind of narrative technique, spatial narration has gradually become Bai Xianyong’s conscious pursuit of art. In his works, he exposes individuals to the space of swimming, which makes them experience the poverty and embarrassment in the transformation of space, from which they show the fate of the complicated characters.