名人生命書寫的「後生命」：以董啟章「狐狸五部曲」的虛構實踐為個案研究

香港作家董啟章（1967－）曾在「自然史三部曲」（2005－2010）表達「超越自我，及於他人」的作家志向。隨後，小說家經歷創作的瓶頸期。以《心》（2016）為「自／字救」的起點，董氏在「狐狸五部曲」（2016－2020）大量使用日本私小說的自白書寫，並將閱讀過的名人傳記及非虛構作品加以虛構，以自我及他人的生命書寫來創作自小說。本文從生命書寫的角度來閱讀狐狸五部曲，以董氏的讀書筆記為輔助文本，從而探討董氏這位書痴型作家如何借助世界範圍內的名人生命書寫來突破小說家的創作瓶頸。具體來說，在以各類生命書寫為重要素材的狐狸五部曲，董氏進行了何種虛構實驗？從中可見怎樣的寫作轉向？又如何承接和回應自然史三部曲遺留下來的寫作難題及困境？

關鍵字

董啟章；香港文學；生命書寫；自小說

並列摘要

Dung Kai-Cheung (1967- ) the Hong Kong writer once expressed his ambition in the Nature Trilogy (2005-2010) to transcend a writer's self and approach the ordinary people in real life. Since then, Dung met with mid-career crisis. Kokoro (2016) marks a new beginning for his self-healing journey with literature. In the Fox Quintet (2016-2020), Dung practices confessional writing as inspired by the I-novels of Natsume Sōseki as well as fictionalizes celebrities' biographies and non-fiction in order to complete his own autofiction. Taking Dung's essays on books as secondary texts, this paper reads the Fox Quintet from the perspective of life writing and discusses how the bookaholic writer appropriates the worldwide celebrities' life writings to overcome his mid-career crisis. And it explores Dung's fictionalizing experiments with other people's life writings to see some turning points in his literary style as well as his dealing with the obstacles and difficulties arising from the Nature Trilogy.

並列關鍵字

Dung Kai-Cheung ； Hong Kong literature ； life writing ； autofiction

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