从瞬间到永久—解读《到灯塔去》中弗吉尼亚#183;伍尔夫的生命观.pdfVIP

I’m now on the strain with desire to stop journalism get on To the Lighthouse . This is going to be fairly short: to have father’s character done complete in it; mothers; St Ives; childhood; and all the usual things I try to put in—life, death. (D3, 18) To the Lighthouse consists of three sections: “The Window”, “Time Passes”, and “The Lighthouse”. Centering on the Ramsay family and their visits for holiday on a remote island, the novel unfolds with Mrs. Ramsay assuring her youngest and dearest son James, six years old, that they should be able to go to the lighthouse tomorrow if the weather permits. Then it presents a picture of the Ramsay family and their guests busy doing different things: Mrs. Ramsay knitting and reading to James who is cutting out pictures from a catalogue, Mr. Ramsay and Charles Tansley walking and talking, Lily Briscoe painting a picture of Mrs. Ramsay and James by the window, and the Ramsay children playing. The central event of “The Window” is the dinner party they make together. The most delicious moment is the eating of the triumphant Boeuf en Daube. The central section “Time Passes” with only 19 pages covering ten years passing, focusing on the relationship between human life and Nature, delineates lyrically the empty house in decline, the devastating force of Nature, and the renewal of life. The major changes in the Ramsay family during this period, such as the sudden death of Mrs. Ramsay, the death of Prue in childbirth, and of Andrew in the war, are all mentioned casually in brackets. “Time Passes” has been praised by almost every reviewer of the novel as one of the great passages of English prose. According to Edwin Muir, it “is the best …and could only have