“上海现代市民叙事”是指穆时英、刘呐鸥、叶灵凤、施蛰存等作家创作的、反映20世纪30年代上海市民生活与价值观的现代市民叙事文学。“公共空间”则是在这些叙事文本中呈现出来的实实在在的“物质空间”。在20世纪30年代市民叙事中公共空间大量出现,文本中的公共空间在推动情节发展、塑造人物性格、影响叙事视野、改变修辞方式上都发挥了很大的叙事功能。它使20世纪30年代现代市民叙事呈现出全新的空间化特征,也标志着现代市民深层价值秩序的逐步形成。公共空间给我们进一步考察都市生活与市民叙事之间的关系提供了一个有效的途径。 “Shanghai Modern Citizen Narration” refers to modern citizen narrative literature written by writers such as Mu Shiying, Liu Naou, Ye Lingfeng and Shi Zhecun and reflecting the life and values ​​of Shanghai citizens in the 1930s. “Public space ” is the real “material space ” in these narrative texts. In the 1930s, public space appeared in public narration. Public space in the text played a great narrative function in promoting plot development, shaping character, influencing narrative visual field and changing rhetoric. It makes the 1930s modern citizen narrative presents a new spatial characteristics, but also marks the gradual formation of the modern citizen’s deep value order. Public space provides us an effective way to further examine the relationship between urban life and citizen narrative.