《奥兰多》中的现代性身份危机

The Crisis of Modern Identity in Orlando

摘要: 伍尔夫在《奥兰多》中书写了主人公奥兰多的身份危机。小说中现代主义艺术对人内在的解放与体系现代性对人内在的束缚使奥兰多在追寻其理想的文学家身份的过程中被社会观念压抑并落入虚无。本文试从体系现代性的视角切入，分析主人公奥兰多身份危机的成因，并试图指出体系现代性所强调的工具理性实际上是对人内心情感、欲念的压抑。渺小的个体在历史的洪流中被裹挟，拖向了无所适从的迷茫和无处落脚的焦虑。伍尔夫对奥兰多身份危机的书写投射出的是个体在体系现代性和美学现代性的对冲夹缝中的挣扎。

Abstract: In Orlando, Virginia Woolf presents the protagonist’s crisis of identity. The novel captures the tension between the inner liberation promised by aesthetic modernism and the inner constraints imposed by systemic modernity. As Orlando aspires to become a poet, he is increasingly suppressed by prevailing social norms and eventually falls into a state of nihilism. This paper approaches the novel from the perspective of systemic modernity, examining the underlying causes of Orlando’s identity crisis. It argues that the instrumental rationality emphasized by systemic modernity serves to repress human emotions and desires. Within the overwhelming current of history, the powerless individual is swept along, consumed by confusion and anxiety, with no firm ground to stand on. Woolf’s portrayal of Orlando’s identity crisis reflects the individual’s existential struggle caught between the forces of systemic modernity and aesthetic modernism.