V. ウルフの時間意識 : 「時間」と「自我」と「死」について

Abstract

Time plays a special role in the experimental texts of Virginia Woolf. In her texts, except for objective chronological time, subjective time is expressed, and time is complex, has its own entangled structure, and is fragmented. The sense of time in Woolf has two aspects: time as 'chronos' and time as 'kairos'. These aspects express 'fear' and a 'wish' toward death. Woolf, on one hand, feared death, escaping from the fear of dissolving time and self. On the other hand, she wished she could be free from the life in which she was forced to fear death. The wish to be free from a life bound by time leads to wishing for the 'eternal moment', a moment out of time. In this paper, the argument is mostly focused on the ambiguity of the sense of time in Woolf, with regard to 'self' and 'death'.