As my colleague Jay Winter pointed out in a thought-provoking article

我的同事杰伊·温特几年前发表了一篇文章
on wartime demography published some years ago,

是一篇有关战争时期人口统计学的文章
many older people in Paris, in London, in Berlin,

在巴黎伦敦和柏林有很多老人
were suffering from depression during the Great War.

在一战期间都得了抑郁症
And you've got the very famous case of the sociologist Emile Durkheim,

还有一个著名的例子社会学家埃米尔·涂尔干
who died of grief; he died of grief only one year after his son's death in December 1915.

在他儿子1915年12月丧生的一年后死于过度悲痛
So, the reverse of the normal succession of generations was seen as shocking, not only during the war,

正常世代更替的颠覆极大的破坏性不仅体现在战争时期
not only in the immediate aftermath of war, but also years later.

还体现在战争不久后持续了很多年
I want to quote an amazing page from the last novel

我想引用一本小说里的一页
you probably know it, it's probably one of the most wonderful books written by Albert Camus,

这是阿尔贝·加缪最精彩的小说之一
Le Premier Homme, The First Man, a copy of which, as you may know,

1960年一月"第一人"的手稿你们可能知道
was filmed in a briefcase near the car in which the novelist died in January 1960,

这是在加缪车祸现场附近一个公文包里被发现的