-----David Harvey,《巴黎,現代性之都》,頁72-73
(原文如下)
"[Balzac] makes the city memorable and thereby constructs a distinctive locus in the imagination for a collective memory. This grounds a certain political sensibility that can ‘flash up’ at moments of revolution. This is the myth of modernity as revolutionary transformation grounded in the city at work. Memory ‘flashed up’ in 1830, as it did in 1848 and 1871, to play a key role in the articulation of revolutionary sentiments. While these revolutionary moments were undoubtedly burdened by appeals to tradition, there was also an aspect to them that was intensely modernist, seeking that radical break through which a completely different path to the future might be opened up. It is not hope, therefore, that guides memory but memory that generates hope when it connects to desire. It was perhaps for this reason that Hugo and Baudelaire both thought Balzac a revolutionary thinker in spite of his reactionary politics.”
-----David Harvey. Paris, Capital of Modernity. (54)