《达洛卫夫人》的诗化特征及其困境

On the Structure of Mrs. Dalloway: Its Uniqueness and Predicament

传统小说描绘剧烈突转、超常态、极端化情感。伍尔夫以道具结构方式取代传统情节结构方式,把被后者排除的"常态的感情、灵魂和理智",纳为小说描写的主要内容。在《达洛卫夫人》中,伍尔夫以达洛卫夫人为道具人物,展开所有人物的感知及他们的感知差异,在相互映衬中生成心心相异的情感逻辑,刻画出达洛卫夫人等众多饱满的人物形象。这种道具结构手法,显示出比情节结构更加经济、更加自由的优势,使人物刻画更加多维、多向,形象更加立体,成就了其诗化小说的风格,主题因果更具阐释性。但这一手法使小说文本成为智性文本,文学性减弱,为普通读者敬而远之。

Unlike the traditional novel which organizes a plot to push forward the progress of a novel,Mrs.Dalloway is not organized in a linear way.Props such as the party,Big Ben play a vital role in the structuring of the novel.Woolf depicts every character's stream of consciousness around these props and thus compares and reveals the characters’different inner worlds and personalities.As a result,the portraying of the characters is threedimensional and complete.The novel becomes poetical.However,the readers are not very pleased with and don’t understand well this kind of stream-of-consciousness novels.