意识流小说与伍尔夫的《达罗威夫人》

The Stream-of Consciousness Novel and Virginia Woolf's "Mrs.Dalloway"

意识流小说是20世纪初叶在西方兴起的一种采用与传统的写法不同的创作方法写成的小说。意识流小说既没有统一的规格,也没有公认的定义。英国女作家弗吉尼亚.伍尔夫在其代表作《达罗威夫人》中尝试了意识流的各种技巧,她熟练灵活地运用视角转换和间接内心独白手法,描绘了一个平庸无知的小妇人一天中十几个小时的生活,向我们展示了一个时代的精神风貌,表现了人类真正的生存状态。

The stream - of- consciousness novel is a style of writing without the conventional devices of dialogue and description. It was developed by authors at the beginning of the 20th century to express in words the flow of a character＇s thoughts and feelings. There are no established principles or definitions of stream - of - consciousness novel. Virginia Woolf, a twentieth - century English author experimented in one of her most admired novels “Mrs. Dalloway” with various stream- of- consciousness narrative techniques. “Mrs. Dalloway” examines one day in the life of a minor, sometimes dim woman, but Woolf＇s unique use of the interior monologue with the third person voice and her skilful shifts in perspective create a complex portrait of Clarissa Dalloway and her relationships with other people. Thus, the novel reveals the very state of human existence in Woolf＇ s time.