本文旨在探討法國二十世紀作家朱利安‧ 格林（Julien Green）在其日記、遊記與隨筆中的城市速寫，聚焦於其旅行書寫中對城市所展現的詩意性與文化想像。研究將城市的呈現分為三個層次進行分析：首先，城市是一種具體的地理景觀，也是一種蘊含詩意的內在空間（espace poétique），與主體的感知、記憶與情感密不可分；其次，城市乃人類集體活動與歷史記憶交織的場域，承載著前人的足跡與人文精神，如同隱跡的羊皮紙般層層堆疊著時間的印記，呈現城市作為公共生活與文化體驗之場的多樣性。最後，城市作為激發夢境、回憶與想像力的象徵性空間，呈現出個人情感與精神性的投射。透過這三重視角，我們不僅得以深入理解格林筆下城市的多層次意涵，也可進一步探討其城市書寫與二十世紀末興起的旅行文學之間的關聯。格林的旅行書寫揭示出城市表層之下潛藏的幽微感知與歷史沉澱，展現出對城市文化的敏銳捕捉與深刻體察。他筆下的城市，不只是物理空間的再現，更是一種結合人文關懷與世界主義精神的文化書寫，體現出兼容並蓄的思想視野。
This article explores the urban sketches found in the diaries, travel writings, and essays of twentieth-century French writer Julien Green, with a particular focus on the poetic and cultural imagination embedded in his representations of the city. The study analyzes Green’s depiction of urban space on three levels. First, the city is presented as a concrete geographical landscape as well as a poetic space (espace poétique), intimately linked to the subject’s perception, memory, and emotion. Second, the city is conceived as a site of collective human activity and historical memory, bearing the traces of past lives and a layered palimpsest of cultural heritage, thereby embodying the multiplicity of public life and cultural experience. Finally, the city emerges as a symbolic space that stimulates dreams, memories, and imagination, revealing deeply personal and spiritual projections. Through these three analytical perspectives, this article seeks to uncover the multilayered meanings of the city in Green’s writing and to examine the connections between his urban representations and the broader rise of travel literature at the end of the twentieth century. Green’s travel writing reveals the subtle perceptions and historical resonances concealed beneath the surface of the city, demonstrating a keen sensitivity to its cultural depth. The city, in Green’s vision, is not merely a physical space, but a cultural text that combines humanist concerns with a cosmopolitan openness, reflecting a spirit of inclusivity and intellectual breadth.