The detective genre is present in Crying of Lot 49.

可以看看《拍卖第49批》这本侦探小说
That's something that you can think about productively when you

如果对奥迪帕办案感兴趣的话
think about Oedipa's search for knowledge and clues.

仔细琢磨那本书你会有很多收获的
There is a way that Pynchon is playing off that convention as well.

平琼也玩转着那套规则
To make the distinction is not to reject one for the other,

区分清楚并不意味着只取其一
so literary fiction and genre fiction are both part of what

因而文学研究者们常常
literary scholars use to make especially these kinds of

专门为它们两者进行
broad-scale arguments.

大讨论
So, it's not really enough, if you want to argue about a whole

但是如果你想谈论文学史的某个大时期
period of literary history, to only skim off the very most

从浩如烟海的文学作品中选读几本
literary works.

是远远不够的
Your argument doesn't have a lot of historical purchase if you do that.

这样的讨论没有什么可看性