从《岁月》看伍尔夫的“凡人琐事”历史观

摘要

伍尔夫是一位极具历史意识的现代主义作家，其女权主义立场促使她质疑聚焦名人要事的正统历史叙事，而去关注“凡人琐事”，从而揭示被官方话语遮蔽的边缘和底层历史。《岁月》典型地体现了伍尔夫重写历史的意图。小说通过对公众人物的漫画式处理，颠覆充斥帝国主义意识形态的正统历史编纂，说明真正的历史不是“记录的”历史，而是“生活的”历史，蕴含在过往与当下的交织以及个体对往事的凝思之中，是一种诗性的存在。%Virginia Woolf is a modernist with a strong sense of history,whose feminist stance compels her to ques-tion the authentic history that favors prominent figures and events,focusing on“the lives of the obscure"and revea-ling the marginal and subaltern histories silenced by the official discourse.The Years typically exemplifies Woolf’s intention of rewriting history.The novel subverts the authentic history associated with imperialist ideologies by cari-caturing the public figures,suggesting that the real history is not “recorded",but “lived",embedded in the inter-weaving between the past and the present as well as the individual's contemplation of the past,and therefore a poetic existence.