of as literary use those structures of narrative as something to play

觉得高雅的文学运用这样的架构有些令人吃惊
off of or something to inhabit while they do a whole bunch of other things.

或者有其鲜为人知的真正原因
Think of the ways that Humbert and Nabokov use the conventions of

回想一下亨伯特及纳博科夫那种
Romantic language

浪漫的语言模式
to make us believe that Humbert really loves Lolita.

它使我们确信亨伯特深爱着洛丽塔
There is something operatic about the extremity of the situation we're

洛丽塔中的场景及其语言风格达到了极致
given, the extremity of the use of those conventions in Lolita.

透着些歌剧的味道
Well, in this case some of our Identity Plot novels use that plot

由此特质主线小说常常借此表达
to say something about language, about literary history, about tradition.

关于语言风格文学史及传统之类的内容
some of them simply give us aesthetic pleasure,

有些给我们美的享受
like the pleasure that we can get from watching Barth use words,

比如巴思的遣词造句就让我们无比享受
make them funny, be clever with them.

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