来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第19集 第19集》

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  scandal.
  莱温斯基丑闻
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  You want to ask yourself, what kind of history is each writer
  你们不禁自问 作家们引用的
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  invoking?
  是什么样的历史呢
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  I want to suggest to you that if you press on the markers
  我想说如果你们忧虑罗斯所选的标签
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  that Roth chooses, you will find something more than
  在本书中你们将发现当时的琐事
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  trivia, more than contemporary trivia, that Roth has in his sights
  有了更多的含义 在罗斯的眼中
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  an equally universal, trans-historical kind of truth in
  本书中它们有着同等地 超历史地
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  this novel, that's brought up by those little details of history.
  真实性 这些都是历史小细节所赋予的
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  And that trans-historical history is the history of desire,
  并且这种超历史的历史是欲望的历史
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  of which both those things are indicative.
  这二者都有象征意义
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  I will say a lot more about desire and its relationship to the history
  我将在周一课堂上就欲望与文学史以及与
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  of literature and to writing in this novel in my Monday lecture,
  本书中欲望描写之间的关系展开深入讨论