在创作《海浪》初稿时,弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙曾说:“我不是关心一个人的生命,而是所有人的生命。”[1]这部为了“所有人的生命”而创作的作品引起了西方批判家对生命主题的关注,开始了一系列关于生命精神的探索。这些西方批判家分别从不同的角度分析和研究《海浪》所表现出的生命精神,但都达不到弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙的境界。伍尔芙认为小说即为艺术,小说作品所传递出的情感必须与作品所表现的形式相互契合,因此创作了《海浪》这部小说,将生命 Virginia Woolf once said: “I do not care about a person’s life, but everyone’s life.” [1] This is for “the life of all” and His works have aroused the attention of Western critics on the theme of life and started a series of explorations on the spirit of life. These western critics analyze and study the life spirits of “Ocean Wave” from different perspectives, but they all fail to reach the stage of Virginia Woolf. Woolf believes that the novel is the art, and the emotion conveyed by the novel must be in accordance with the expression of the work. Therefore, he created the novel “Wave”