“西方现代派文学是于19世纪末产生,20世纪前半期在欧美蓬勃发展,思想上具有强烈反传统倾向,艺术上刻意创新的各种先锋文学流派和倾向的总称。”~①笔者以此类文学作品中的城市意象为切入点,从空间实践角度出发,探析西方现代主义文学中的城市书写及其背后的城市人群的精神蕴藏。一、西方现代主义文学中的城市意象“随着地方意识、空间理论和生态批评、环境批评的兴起,文学中的城市空间和物理环境开始受到学术界的关注。”~②城市可以不是作品的主角,但也绝不仅 “Western modernist literature is the general term for various avant-garde literary schools and tendencies that originated in the late 19th century and thrived in Europe and the United States during the first half of the 20th century with a strong anti-traditional tendency in thought and deliberate innovation in art.” The urban image in such literary works is the starting point, and from the perspective of space practice, it explores the urban writing in the Western modernism literature and the spiritual implications of the urban population behind it. I. The Image of City in Western Modernism Literature “With the rise of local consciousness, space theory, ecological criticism and environmental criticism, the urban space and physical environment in literature began to receive academic attention.” The protagonist of the work, but not only