Yes. Both novels do that, and it does call into question,

是的两部小说都是这样的而且它们真的引发了一些问题
I think, for both novels, how we're to read its morality,

我认为对于两部小说我们该怎么解读其中的道义
because both deliberately take up subjects that evoke in us moral responses.

因为两部小说都特意地包含了那些引起我们道德反响的主题
So, Jones' choice--

所以琼斯的选择
if you think about Nabokov setting himself up with a problem

如果你们认为纳巴科夫用一个难题缠绕住他自己
(how can you make us love a pedophile?)--

你怎么能让我们去爱一个恋童癖者
Jones' problem, his chess problem,

那么琼斯的难题他的象棋难题
is: what do you do with a black slave owner?

是你会拿一个黑奴隶主怎么办
How are we to understand the phenomenon of black slave ownership?

我们该怎么理解黑奴隶主制现象
So, that's the moral question he brings up, and we will have to see

所以这就是他提出的道德层面上的问题我们不得不去看
whether ambivalence finally gives away to critique,

矛盾的感情是否最终向批判让步
whether there is a strong moral critique of the situations that he sets up

那时是否有对作者设立的这种情况的强烈抨击