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
Berkshires and has been very secluded up there and very

伯克郡他隐居在那里
productive writing novels in the last ten years.

在过去十年中产量颇丰
So, in this novel already, anybody who knows even those basic

在本书中知道这些底细的人明了
facts knows that Roth himself as a writer is confessional, in

罗斯作为一个自白型的作家
some sense of the word.

是在实实在在地剖析自己
One question we might want to ask is: is he counter-confessional the

我们可能会提出这个问题他是在
way that Coleman is, the way that you can be a

沿循着科勒曼的方式反自白吗即采取