伍尔夫笔下的火车车厢同程场景:从现代性到现代主义

The Railway Carriage Scene in Woolf's Works:Moving from Modernity to Modernism

20世纪20年代初是伍尔夫现代主义创作观念趋向成熟的重要阶段。在1921-1924年间,伍尔夫先后发表了短篇小说《一部未写的小说》,长篇小说《雅各的房间》和文章《贝内特先生与布朗夫人》。这三部不同体裁的作品在伍尔夫的创作生涯中都占据了重要的地位。而在这三部作品中,她都描绘了一个相似的场景,即在火车车厢里与陌生乘客短暂同程。伍尔夫对这个场景的反复书写值得关注。显然,伍尔夫敏锐地捕捉到了它的丰富意蕴,使之成为其现代性书写的典型。对伍尔夫三部作品中这个场景进行分析有助于理解伍尔夫是如何通过书写现代性经验向着成熟的现代主义创作观念跃进的。

The early 1920s saw Virginia Woolf progressing towards mature modernist writing.Woolf published the short story“An Unwritten Novel”,the novel Jacob's Room,and the essay“Mr.Bennett and Mrs.Brown,”between 1921 and 1924.The three works,each of a distinct genre,occupy the pivotal position in Woolf’s literary career.In each of them,Woolf describes a similar scene of meeting some passengers in the carriage on a train journey.Woolf's revisiting of the scene deserves critical attention.Attracted by the rich import of the scene,Woolf makes it a typical episode for the writing of modernity.A further analysis of the scene in the three works will lead to a better understanding as to how Woolf works from the representation of modernity towards her mature modernist writing.