One is a version of the Identity Plot.

其一是身份情节的一种形式
It is a novel of a young person,

这是一部关于一个年轻人
two young people, coming to seek out their past

两个年轻人去寻找他们的过去
and somehow gain from that search some sense of themselves;

并从中得到关于自己的一些看法
so, it is a version of the Identity Plot.

所以这是身份情节的一种形式
It is also representative of late modernist formal characteristics;

它也是晚期现代主义的形式特征的代表
so, this is clever

所以他就像
in the way that John Barth is clever with language.

约翰·巴思运用语言那样聪明娴熟
It is funny in the way that

在某种程度上很有趣地
Pynchon and Barth are,

品钦和巴斯
just drawing from our syllabus.

就像在模仿学习我们大纲中的作品
It makes some of the kinds of moves

它的行动与情节