All the Lives We Ever Lived by Katharine Smyth

翻译《海伦的苍鹰》时，一直对该书应该归在哪一类存在怀疑。自传、传记、回忆录、文学批评、自然写作？

这本书也是。基本的套路就是将自己生活中的一段经历和某一部文学作品紧密结合在一起，用自己的经历指导对文学作品的诠释，同时用精读该文学作品的经历来指导对自身经历的总结，从而形成一种独特的文学传记体裁。

而且这类作品的进一步分类包含年轻女性对父亲的回忆。

这本书的开头总结得到位：

Perhaps there is one book for every life.

One book with the power to reflect and illuminate that life; one book that will forever inform how we navigate the little strip of time we are given, while also helping us to clarify and catch hold of its most vital moments. For me, that book is To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf’s novel about her parents, Julia and Leslie Stephen, who died when Virginia was thirteen and twenty-two, respectively.