China and the West

[Woolf, Virginia]. Qiang sheng yi dian hen ji. Ye Gongchao yi. [ID D311573].
Ye Gongchao published the translation of Woolf's story The mark on the wall with a brief and objective introduction of Woolf's works and influence in British literature world. He describes Woolf as 'the most widely known novelist in the past decade', who got both praise and censure in British literary world. Ye notes that some celebrated novelists such as Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells, John Galsworthy, Frank Swinnterton and H.J. Massingham held the idea that Woolf's works were written with extreme elegance, but without any value, while E.M. Forster, Clive Bell, Roger Fry, Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, and André Maurois responded that Woolf's opponents did not undertstand Woolf's representation of the emancipation of individuals. Ye claims that 'Woolf definitely has no intention to preach to her aufience or critique human life, which alone runs counter to the convention. What she is concerned with is neither the struggle of emotions nor problems of society and life, but the extremely vague, extremely abstract, and extremely acute feelings that psychoanalysis calls the subconsiousness'. Ye argues, Woolf's description of individuality is 'original', and thus her 'technique is absolutely valuable, 'because the novel is based on the presentation of individual behavior. Ye explains that he chose to translate The mark on the wall because it is 'the most typical representative work of Woolf's work.