this period because of the very complexity with which he makes the

因为他小说文本中的极端复杂性
texture of his novels speak to the question of fiction's

探讨到小说与生活的关系
relationship to life, writing's relation to life,

写作与生活的关系
and the relationship between the writer and what he or she writes,

以及作家与其写作对象的关系
the writer and the work.

作家与作品的关系
These are questions that vex writers in this period.

这是这个时期一直烦扰着作家们的问题
We have seen many writers in this syllabus who worry about

教学大纲中有许多关心这些问题的作家
these things: Barth, Morrison, so many of them,

比如巴思莫里森等等
Maxine Hong Kingston.

还有马克辛·洪·金斯敦
Roth does it in a way that nobody else particularly does.

而罗斯的做法无人能及
He's also widely admired.

他的崇拜者也的确甚多
When The New York Times had this feature a few years ago--

几年前《纽约时报》曾有这样的描述