浅析《幕间》的时空观

A Brief Analysis of Space and Time in Between the Acts

《幕间》于1941年正式出版,是弗吉尼亚.伍尔夫的绝笔之作。《幕间》是一部内涵丰富、寓意深刻的小说,讲述了1939年6月的一天发生在英格兰中部一个有五百多年历史的村庄里的故事。小说中有两条叙事线索,一条叙述乡绅巴塞罗缪.奥利弗一家的故事,另一条叙述拉特鲁布女士指导村民露天历史剧演出。伍尔夫遵循柏格森的"心理时间"学说,重视心理时空而轻物理时空,背弃传统文学中钟表时间对小说的绝对影响,把人物的复杂经历压缩到一天之内加以表现,时间呈现瞬间性、跳跃性和凝滞性。

Virginia Woolf＇ s last work Between the Acts, officially published in 1941, is unanimously regarded as a piece of work both informative and inspiring. Between the Acts, tells a story which took place in a 500 year old village in the central part of England one day in June, 1939. There are two threads of narration, the first following the story of the country squire Bartholomew Oliver＇ s family, and another describing the story of Miss La Trobe directing vii- lagers to perform pageant. Woolf obeys Bergson＇ s concept of psychological time and space, for her psychological time and space matters much more than physical time and space and she disobeys the dominating influence of the time of clock in traditional literature and compresses the complex experience of characters into one day. And time has these characters： moments ,leaps and stagnation.