Abstract
The novels Halfway Down and The Blue and the Black adopt suffering, exile, and triangle romance among one man and two women as narrative spindle. Both novels employ relationships between ascending of two heroines and sinking of the surrounding as ending. These two works recruit urban scenes in Taiwan and Hong Kong as the story background. Moreover, both novels, by symbolically rejecting and disregarding current circumstances through their narratives, remind the anti-communist memories and the national restoration in the past. This study excavates and discusses how anti-communist literature uses the narrative and metaphor of novels to transform corporeal body into a multidimensional territory with symbolic meanings. Additionally, the body expresses the historical dilemma of the nation at that time and the metaphysical aesthetics radiated by somatic space. In the 1950s, male anti-communist writers aimed to construct a ＂mis-spatiotemporal utopia＂ through literature to resist the unaffordable realistic threshold. Yet the ideal space of anti-communist literature do not actually exist; it however demonstrates a metaphysical sacred domain where the exiled wanderers could rebuild paradise in the God-promised land. Thus, this study aims to reveal the significant meaning and values in different dimensions of these two classic anti-communist literatures through literature review, text analysis, and comparative study.