都市文学不是传统的"农村—城市"文学二元化中的城市文学，而是在今天国际化大都市对于人的精神的压抑下所产生的一种文艺美学，是文学对人的精神状态的表现。可以从两个维度来探讨都市文学的可能性：一个维度是，以往小说中塑造的人物都是完整的、清晰的，而大都市文化背景下人呈现的不完整形态导致了精神的破碎，作家如何塑造不完整的都市人，人们如何理解破碎的精神内在；另一个维度是，人的精神压缩、破碎之后带来人性、家庭等伦理的危机。

By urban literature we mean the literature which presents people's psychic repression in an international metropolis rather than the city literature in the traditional dualist framework of the rural and the urban. We can discuss the possibility of urban literature from two dimensions. The first is how a writer can create incomplete urban personalities and how people can understand broken spirit. The characters in traditional novels are generally intact and clear, while in the metropolitan culture there are incomplete personalities with spiritual rupture. The second is the crises in terms of humanity, families and ethics resulted from spiritual pressure and rupture.