Abstract: 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.

Key words: urban literature, humanity, mental status