来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说第11集第11集》

Barth, by offering us a perfect short story in that story,

通过这篇完美的小故事
is demonstrating what traditional structures of narrative

巴斯向读者展现了传统记叙文
have always offered us.

的惯用结构
And the fact that it's not your favorite, maybe we're

但你们却并不喜欢这种风格或许
at a watershed moment, that even traditional narrative can

这正是一个分水岭传统的记叙文已经
just---you guys are so well beyond that seduction.

远不能吸引你们
Maybe it's Lolita that we read.

也许是因为之前对《洛丽塔》的解读
Maybe it's that you got so seduced by Lolita, or you were

太过深入难以自拔又或者你们
so well trained to be skeptical of narrative seduction,

已经训练有素对记叙文有抵抗力
that now nothing can faze you, nothing can seduce you.

已没什么可以扰乱你们吸引你们
Maybe that's it.

也许是因为这个原因
Give yourself that credit.

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