succeeds in passing as Jewish.

并且成功加入犹太教
He's a black man,

他是一个黑人
and he passes for his whole life as

他一辈子都是以犹太人的方式生活
Jewish, and in doing so rejects his family.

并且他在做这件事时也被其家庭所拒绝
In a way, what Coleman does is write his autobiography,

在某种程度上尼科尔就是在写自传
a fictional autobiography, in the very process of living it.

一个虚幻的自传然而他正在经历
So Roth imagines lived life as fictional in the same register as a

所以罗斯想象着过着小说一样的生活
novel, or as truthful--dubiously so, perhaps--in the same register

或是真实的这是值得怀疑的
as an autobiography.

像自传那样的
So these are questions that will come back to us.

所以这些问题是我们会面对的
This is part of what I find so compelling about fiction and

这是我发现的在这个时期小说和文学
literature in general in this period.

如此令人着迷的部分