those kinds of narratives, Roth is taking a kind of risk here.

叙述手法当中罗斯此处承受着风险
He's playing it safe because he knows that this is a topic of

他能安然面对是因为他清楚这是个关于
interest, but he's taking a risk as an artist because he's working in

利益的话题但作为艺术家他仍面临着
very well-trodden territory.

风险因为这个领域的题材早被写旧了
I suggested that, also, when a genre reaches a certain

我还认为当一个流派达到了某种饱和
point of saturation, writers tend to change the subject.

状态时作者会趋于更换主题
I didn't say this when we talked about Blood Meridian,

在讲到《血色子午线》时我没有谈到这个
but I think in part Blood Meridian is that kind

但是我认为《血色子午线》部分出于此
of change of subject.

理由而改变了主题
So, this returns to the genre, and we want to ask what it's doing

这就又回到流派上我们不禁疑惑
with the genre.

它对整个流派产生了什么作用
Before I go in to my meditation on that question today,

在我对这个问题进入深思之前