Virginia-Woolf(弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙).ppt

VirginiaWoolf

AdelineVirginiaWoolf(bornStephen;January25，1882–March28，1941)wasanEnglishnovelist,essayist,regardedasoneoftheforemostmodernistliteraryfiguresofthetwentiethcentury.HermostfamousworksincludethenovelsMrs.Dalloway(1925),TotheLighthouse(1927)andOrlando(1928),andthebook-lengthessayARoomofOne’sOwn(1929).

BiographyVirginiaWoolfwasborninLondonin1882.Herparentshadeachbeenmarriedpreviously.andShewaseducatedbyherparentsinthehousehold.Thesuddendeathofhermotherin1895,andthatofherhalf-sisterStellatwoyearslater,ledtothefirstofVirginiasseveralnervousbreakdowns.Herbreakdownsandsubsequentrecurringdepressiveperiods,werealsoinfluencedbythesexualabusesheandVanessaweresubjectedtobytheirhalf-brothers.

Thedeathofherfatherin1904provoked〔惹起〕hermostalarmingcollapse〔崩溃〕andshewasbrieflyinstitutionalized.Afterthat,VirginiaandVanessamovedtoBloomsbury.Withherfriends,sheformedthenucleus(核心)oftheintellectual〔知识分子〕circleknownastheBloomsburyGroup.VirginiaStephenmarriedLeonardWoolfin1912.In1922,VirginiametthewriterandgardenerVitaSackville-West.Afteratentative〔尝试性的〕start,theybeganasexualrelationshipthatlastedthroughmostofthe1920s.

SuicideAftercompletingthemanuscript(手稿)ofherlast(posthumously在死后published)novel,BetweentheActs,Woolffellvictimtoadepressionsimilartothatwhichshehadearlierexperienced.OnMarch28，1941,Woolfcommittedsuicide.Sheputonherovercoat,filleditspocketswithstones,thenwalkedintotheRiverOusenearherhomeanddrownedherself.Woolf’sskeletonised(成骨架的)bodywasnotfounduntilApril18.Herhusbandburiedhercremated〔被火葬的〕remainsunderatreeinthegardenofMonk’shouse,theirhomeinRodmell,Sussex.

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WorkMrs.Dalloway(1925)centresontheeffortsofClarissaDalloway,amiddle-agedsocietywoman,toorga