来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第24集 第24集》
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he called his novel The Corrections他把自己的小说取名为《纠正》 -
and tried to give us a story where the verbal play would not想要给我们一个小说内在情感 -
drain the sentiment from the novel.不受口语化表达影响的故事 -
So, he described it as the social novel coming to meet the他描述着像社会小说遭遇到 -
postmodern novel.后现代小说 -
He announced this to great fanfare in an essay,他在一篇短评中予此以莫大的赞誉 -
and of course the novel then became famous.当然随后这部小说出名了 -
And he became "infamous"他却变得"非著名" -
when he was invited by Oprah当他受欧普拉邀请 -
to go on Oprah's Book Club参加欧普拉的读书俱乐部 -
with The Corrections, and he refused.介绍《纠正》时 他拒绝了 -
It was quite a scandal in the literary world.这在文学界是件丑闻