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Virginia Woolf /弗吉妮娅·伍尔芙作者简介

   An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second. This extraordinary discrepancy between time on the clock and time in the mind is less known than it should be and deserves fuller investigation.

---- Virginia Woolf  


弗吉妮娅·伍尔芙(Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941)出生于伦敦,父亲是著名学者、传记作家。伍尔芙自幼体弱多病,未受正规学校教育。她常在家阅读父亲的藏书,浸染书香,蕴就深厚的传统文学修养。伍尔芙一生中共创作过9部长篇小说及若干短篇小说,创作总体结构呈现一种循环模式。两部采用传统现实主义形式的小说《出航》(The Voyage Out, 1915)、《夜与日》(Night and Day,1919)是其开端。中期实验作品以意识流小说为主,《雅各布的房间》(Jacob’s Room,1922)、《达罗卫夫人》(Mrs. Dalloway, 1925)、《到灯塔去》 (To the Lighthouse, 1927)、《奥兰多》(Orlando, 1928)与《海浪》(The Waves, 1931)相继问世,最后两部小说《岁月》(The Years, 1937)与《幕间》(Between the Acts, 1941)重心又回复到外部现实。意识流小说构成伍尔芙最引人注目的文学成就,她对女性存在的历史与现状独具慧眼的反思与洞察,使其成为女性主义批评史上先驱式人物。伍尔芙晚年周期性的精神崩溃使她的生活苦不堪言。1941年3月28日,即在乔伊斯病逝两个半月之后,伍尔芙将她的帽子和手杖留在一条小河边,投水自尽。