... the mentalities of human beings when they encounter a catastrophe. With modern fiction as fiction of trauma is concerned, DeMeester connects the style of Woolf's narrative in her novels and the psychological phase of men struggling from trauma. The fragmentation of consciousness of trauma victims coherent to Woolf's stream-of-consciousness narrative form that reveals life is disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight of mankind is hidden under the consciousness. This kind of unstable, flickering experience mirrors the chronological and spatial confusion of trauma victims. In perception of time, they always mingle the past and future with the present. Their closed system of subjective consciousness undoubtedly is similar to the perception of space made in Woolf's novels. DeMeester, in addition, takes Clarissa and Septimus as examples to investigate the relation of trauma and recovery. He considers a paradoxical thinking that the psychological effects of trauma come to be the way ...

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