王安忆的短篇小说《发廊情话》通过一间位于城市一隅的小发廊向读者展现了80年代上海小人物平凡、细琐而又不甘平庸的市井生活。小说的叙事方式、细节的描写以及颇具典型性的人物形象刻画都展现了作家对生活敏锐、深刻的洞察力和感受力以及独具个性的文字表达力。作者以上海这座大都市为背景,将叙述的焦点集中于一个并不起眼的小发廊里。发廊中人的流动性、人物身份的驳杂以及在此基础上建立起的特定话语空间使其成为观察纷繁芜杂的社会生活的 Wang Anyi’s short story, Hair Salon Love Story, presents the reader with an ordinary, nuanced and unforgiving life in the 1980s through a small hair salon located in a corner of the city. The novel’s narrative method, the description of the details, and the rather typical portrayal of characters all demonstrate the writers’ keen insight, profound insight and sensibility in life as well as their individualistic expression. In the context of this metropolis in Shanghai, the author focuses his narrative on an insignificant hair salon. The fluidity of the hair salons, the miscellaneous character identity and the specific discourse space established on the basis of this result make it an indiscriminate social life