Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941) was a English author and feminist. Born Adeline Virginia Stephens in London she was brought up and educated at home. In 1895 following the death of her mother she had the first of numerous nervous breakdowns. Following the death of her father (Sir Leslie Stephen, a literary critic) in 1904, she moved with her sister and two brothers to a house in Bloomsbury. She began writing professionally in 1905, initially for the Times Literary Supplement. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, a civil servant and political theorist. Her first novel, The Voyage Out, was published in 1915. Between the wars, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury group. In March 1941, Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse, near her Romdell residence. She had published ten (?) novels and over 500 essays.

出版者:Harcourt Publishers Ltd College Publishers

作者:Virginia Woolf

页数:216

出版时间:1990-9-1

价格:USD 13.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780156628709

图书标签:VirginiaWoolf意识流英国文学小说女性英国外国文学woolf

Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, published in 1925, was a bestseller both in Britain and the United States despite its departure from typical novelistic style. Mrs. Dalloway and Woolf's subsequent book, To the Lighthouse, have generated the most critical attention and are the most widely studied of Woolf's novels.

The action of Mrs. Dalloway takes place during a single day in June 1923 in London, England. This unusual organizational strategy creates a special problem for the novelist: how to craft characters deep enough to be realistic while treating only one day in their lives. Woolf solved this problem with what she called a "tunneling" technique, referring to the way her characters remember their pasts. In experiencing these characters' recollections, readers derive for themselves a sense of background and history to characters that, otherwise, a narrator would have had to provide.

In a sense, Mrs. Dalloway is a novel without a plot. Instead of creating major situations between characters to push the story forward, Woolf moved her narrative by following the passing hours of a day. The book is composed of movements from one character to another, or of movements from the internal thoughts of one character to the internal thoughts of another.

Mrs. Dalloway has been called a flâneur novel, which means it depicts people walking about a city. (Flâneur is the French word for a person who enjoys walking around a city often with no other purpose than to see the sights.) The book, as is typical of the Flâneur novel, makes the city, its parks, and its streets as interesting as the characters who inhabit them.

Clarissa Dalloway's party, which is the culminating event of the book, ties the narrative together by gathering the group of friends Clarissa thinks about throughout her day. It also concludes the secondary story of the book, the story of Septimus Warren Smith, by having Dr. Bradshaw arrive at the party and mention that one of his patients committed suicide that day.

The book's major competing themes are isolation and community, or the possibilities and limits of communicativeness, as evidenced by Clarissa's abiding sense of being alone and by her social skills, which bring people together at her parties.

读后感

《达洛卫夫人》以“一天的时间来写尽一个女人的一生”，而我用了一天的时间，来了解达洛卫夫人的一生。 她从小生活富裕，从来不知道穷是什么感觉，所以她无法理解自己女儿的贫穷的家庭教师—一基尔曼小姐对富人的那种仇视。后来她和彼得恋爱，俩人无话不谈，从艺术到...  

看完Virginia Woolf的Mrs Dalloway已经有一段时间；书是从头到尾没有分章节，而且又是几乎纯意识流，读起来颇为吃力，于是读完之后困惑之下又多读了两遍。但是知道听了Avril Lavigne的新歌Here’s to never growing up之后，才突然心有所感，才想起来再回来写一点东西。用如此...  

校对完毕，编辑很用心，改正了不少错别字及标点符号，表示感谢！ 如果硬要吹毛求疵的话，就是有些破碎的句子被改整齐了， 有些不断重复的短语被删除了。 我觉得这些特征正反映了作者有神经质的一面，应予保留。 不过，这仅是我的个人意见。  

关于意识流 这是《达维洛夫人》，才几页伍尔夫就已经交代了这个故事的主要人物：达维洛夫人和在她情感和记忆中烙下深深印痕的彼得。像是在说一个我的故事，或是像一个同类在分享相近的生命经验。快感是来源于共鸣吧。 “她记得他的眼睛、他的折叠小刀、他的微笑、他的坏脾气、...  

“伟大的女人，住在自己家中，期待着世界的成长。” 感谢伦纳德•伍尔夫，使弗吉尼亚拥有自己的房间，在那间或许不大的屋子里，伍尔夫可以静下心，抛开繁杂的事务，让笔尖流淌出自己真实的想法和思考，留给我们一笔宝贵的财富。阅读伍尔夫的...  

用户评价

fear no more the heat o' the sun, nor the furious winter's rages

第一句话很吸引人，前两页让人迷茫，往后突然又变得有意思起来。很典型的意识流小说，有时态的语言意味着可以存在更多可能。

太细节而又令人心痛的人生，全是retrospect的啊。

太细节而又令人心痛的人生，全是retrospect的啊。

觉得就像一个女人一边和人聊天一边漫不经心的在一块大布上绣着不成图案的东西，一个个词汇就像针线穿过布匹一样一个个被带出来，等到话终于说完，她展开那块布时，你才发现不知什么时候已经绣成好大一朵花。特别喜欢那句Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers for herself，毕竟对自己好，其实是理所应当的事情嘛。