this is quite a remarkable term for Roth to use.

这是罗斯运用的一个极为出色的词组
The history of Roth's writing from the very first story collection,

罗斯的写作从收集故事开始
Goodbye, Columbus published in 1960,

《再见吧哥伦布》1960年出版
through the many, many novels in the next five decades,

通过接下来五十年出版的众多小说
that trajectory, which I'm going to talk a little bit

他的写作轨迹我将在周三的
about on Wednesday, is defined by the confessional

课上讲到由其作品中自白的
quality of many of these works.

质量来定义
So, Roth is widely known for drawing on

罗斯闻名于在小说中描绘
his own life in his fiction, and for making Nathan Zuckerman

自己的人生和显著地令
track his biography in significant ways.

内森·祖克曼追逐他的人生轨迹
And, in this novel, it happens to be true that Philip

在本书中恰好成真的是菲利普罗斯
Roth went through prostate cancer surgery and now lives up in the

经历了前列腺癌手术后现住在