Clarissa Dalloway, in her fifties, wife of an English MP, emerges from her house in Westminster one fine June morning to buy flowers for her party. And by that simple act she entwines her life with the lives of others who will hear, with her, Big Ben toll away the hours of their destinies that day.
"Clarissa's day captures in a definite matrix the drift of thought and feelin...
Clarissa Dalloway, in her fifties, wife of an English MP, emerges from her house in Westminster one fine June morning to buy flowers for her party. And by that simple act she entwines her life with the lives of others who will hear, with her, Big Ben toll away the hours of their destinies that day.
"Clarissa's day captures in a definite matrix the drift of thought and feeling in a period, the point of view of a class, and seems almost to indicate the strength and weakness of a civilization." (The New York Times)
她有一次曾把一先令硬币扔进蛇形湖里，以后在没有抛弃过别的东西。但是他把自己的生命抛弃了。他们继续活着（她得回去；那些屋子里仍挤满了人；客人还在不断地来）。他们（一整天她都想着伯尔顿，想着彼得，想着萨莉），他们会变老的。有一种东西是重要的；这种东西被闲聊所环绕、外观被损坏，在她的生活中很少见，人们每天都在腐败、谎言和闲聊中将它一点一滴地丢掉。这种东西他却保留了。死亡就是反抗。死亡就是一种与人交流的努力，因为人们感觉要到达中心是不可能的，这中心神奇地躲着他们；亲近的分离了，狂喜消退了，只剩下孤单的一个人。死亡之中有拥抱。
......“如果现在死去，现在就是最幸福。”
......或者诗人和思想家们也有同感。
She had once thrown a shilling into the Serpentine, never anything more. But he had flung it away. They went on living (she would have to go back; the rooms were still crowded; people kept on coming). They (all day she had been thinking of Bourton, of Peter, of Sally), they would grow old. A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Deat... (查看原文)
再说还有那种恐怖感，那种强烈的无能为力的感觉，因为父母把这条生命交到你手里的时候期望你活到老，期望你宁静地与其同行，而你却不能。
Then (she had felt it only this morning) there was the terror; the overwhelming incapacity, one's parents giving it into one's hands, this life, to be lived to the end, to be walked with serenely; there was in the depths of her heart an awful fear. (查看原文)
Peter Walsh还是Richard Dalloway? Clarissa最后选择了后者。刚开始读不明白为什么不选Peter这种典型soulmate,读完才意识到Peter对她太了解以至于在他面前一点隐私都没，由此产生了恐慌。以及很多时候人是无法相互理解的，正如Sally所说"what can one know even of the people one lives with every d...Peter Walsh还是Richard Dalloway? Clarissa最后选择了后者。刚开始读不明白为什么不选Peter这种典型soulmate,读完才意识到Peter对她太了解以至于在他面前一点隐私都没，由此产生了恐慌。以及很多时候人是无法相互理解的，正如Sally所说"what can one know even of the people one lives with every day?而Peter总会把自己的判断强加给Clarissa, 这种自信乃至自负无疑将Clarissa赶到了Richard的那一边，虽然没有轰轰烈烈的爱，至少双方始终保持一定距离，确保了隐私和心灵的自由。(展开)
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0 有用 ⠀ 2012-08-17 16:43:58
比较震动我的是 丛书信息：Wordsworth Classics (共185册)
0 有用 Sophie 2011-04-19 21:58:53
许是因为略带调侃的文风, 读得特别顺遂. 有人堕落, 有人错爱, 有人每每庆幸没有嫁给好友. 总也完不了的男女二元对立. "Once you fall, human nature is on you." 说得在理.
1 有用 DJ 2017-02-15 22:05:57
说得这些梦话有些都像是自己说的。大部分是各个人物的内心独白和妄想，但能说到你心里。谢谢你，Mrs. Woolf.
0 有用 竹去 2012-04-27 16:25:13
Virginia Woolf 真是有钱有闲有才的阔太太呀。羡慕之~
3 有用 gezidejiejie 2013-05-26 15:11:28
Peter Walsh还是Richard Dalloway? Clarissa最后选择了后者。刚开始读不明白为什么不选Peter这种典型soulmate,读完才意识到Peter对她太了解以至于在他面前一点隐私都没，由此产生了恐慌。以及很多时候人是无法相互理解的，正如Sally所说"what can one know even of the people one lives with every d... Peter Walsh还是Richard Dalloway? Clarissa最后选择了后者。刚开始读不明白为什么不选Peter这种典型soulmate,读完才意识到Peter对她太了解以至于在他面前一点隐私都没，由此产生了恐慌。以及很多时候人是无法相互理解的，正如Sally所说"what can one know even of the people one lives with every day?而Peter总会把自己的判断强加给Clarissa, 这种自信乃至自负无疑将Clarissa赶到了Richard的那一边，虽然没有轰轰烈烈的爱，至少双方始终保持一定距离，确保了隐私和心灵的自由。 (展开)