双语朗读：《飞蛾之死》The Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf’s published work 《飞蛾之死》和灰蛾的图片

Author

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is widely regarded as one of the foremost British modernist writers of the early 20th century. She was born in London in 1882, daughter of Leslie Stephen, an eminent literary critic and the founder of the Dictionary of National Biography. Following the death of her father in 1904, Woolf moved with her sister Vanessa and two brothers to a house in Bloomsbury, where they formed the nucleus of what was to be known as the Bloomsbury Group. In 1905 Woolf began to write for the Times Literary Supplement almost until her death. In 1912 she married the political theorist and critic Leonard Woolf, and together they founded the Hogarth Press in 1917. Her first novel, The Voyage Out, was published in 1915. Although realistic in form, it already foreshadows the lyrical intensity of her later works. Her third novel, Jacob’s Room (1922), blazes a new path in the art of fiction with its indirect narration and poetic Impressionism. Shortly afterwards, she published one of her most famous essays, “Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown, ” criticising the realism of Arnold Bennett and advocating a more fluid, internal approach to the problem of characterisation and so forth. This and her subsequent major novels, Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and The Waves (1931) established Woolf as one of the leading writers of modernism. Her other novels include Orlando (1928), The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941). Woolf was also a prolific essayist and literary critic, publishing around 500 essays in periodicals and collections such as The Common Reader (1925; 2nd series, 1932), the posthumous the The Death of the Moth (1942), The Captain’s Death Bed (1950), and Granite and Rainbow (1958).

Virginia Woolf remains a cynosure of widespread scholarly and lay interest to date. Many of her experimental techniques and narrative styles, such as the use of stream of consciousness, interior monologue, and the deliberate breakage of linear chronological sequence, have been absorbed into the mainstream of fiction. However, it is noteworthy that Woolf is likewise concerned with public affairs and human conditions at large. The upsurge of feminist criticism from the 1970s onwards succeeded in bringing more attention to Woolf’s novels, sometimes to the extent of pigeonholing her as a feminist pioneer. A Room of One’s Own (1929) has become a classic of the feminist movement. Recent Woolfian studies have become more varied, promising more subtle and comprehensive understanding of her works, aesthetics, and her contribution to literature as a unique writer.

Virginia Woolf suffered from mental disorder and ill health since she was very young. The last of her attacks of mental illness led to her drowning herself in the Ouse river, near her country house at Rodmell, Sussex in 1941.

作者

弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫(1882-1941)被广泛认为是20世纪初英国最重要的现代主义作家之一。她于1882年出生于伦敦，父亲是著名的文学评论家、《国家传记词典》的创始人莱斯利·斯蒂芬。1904年父亲去世后，伍尔夫和姐姐凡妮莎以及两个兄弟搬到了布卢姆茨伯里的一所房子里，他们组成了后来被称为布卢姆茨伯里派的核心。1905年，伍尔夫开始为《泰晤士报文学副刊》撰稿，直到去世。1912年，她嫁给了政治理论家和批评家伦纳德·伍尔夫，并于1917年一起创立了贺加斯出版社。她的第一部小说《远航》于1915年出版。虽然它的形式现实，已经预示了她后期作品的抒情强度。她的第三部小说《雅各布的房间》(1922)以间接叙事和诗意印象派为小说艺术开辟了一条新道路。不久之后，她发表了她最著名的一篇文章《班尼特先生和布朗夫人》，批评阿诺德·班尼特的现实主义，主张用一种更流畅、更内在的方法来处理人物刻画等问题。这本书和她后来的主要小说《达洛维夫人》(1925)、《到灯塔去》(1927)和《海浪》(1931)确立了伍尔夫作为现代主义主要作家之一的地位。她的其他小说包括《奥兰多》(1928)、《岁月》(1937)，以及《幕间》(1941)。伍尔夫还是一个多产的散文家和文学评论家，出版大约500篇文章发表在期刊和文集上，如1925年的《普通读者》;（续集II，1932)，死后出版的《飞蛾之死》(1942)，《船长的死床》(1950)和《花岗岩与彩虹》(1958)。

弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫至今仍是学术界和社会各界广泛关注的焦点人物。她的许多实验性手法和叙事风格，如意识流的运用、内心独白、刻意打破线性时间顺序等，都被主流小说所吸收。然而，值得注意的是，伍尔夫同样关注公共事务和人类的普遍状况。从20世纪70年代开始，女权主义批评的高潮成功地让人们对伍尔夫的小说产生了更多的关注，有时甚至到了把她归类为女权主义先驱的程度。《一个人的房间》(1929)已成为女权运动的经典之作。近年来，对伍尔夫的研究变得更加多样化，使得人们对她的作品、美学以及她作为一个独特的作家对文学的贡献有了更加微妙和全面的理解。

弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫从很小的时候起就患有精神障碍和疾病。1941年，她在苏塞克斯郡罗德梅尔的乡间别墅附近，最后一次精神疾病发作导致她在乌斯河中溺亡。

伍尔夫的生平

本文选自复旦大学出版社出版，由陆谷孙、丁俊、朱绩崧、张楠选编的《20篇:英美现当代散文》（修订版）

飞蛾的生命周期

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中文译文（第一段）

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第二、三、四段中文译文

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双语朗读by Brenda Li