the history of literature's forms and ambitions.

文学史的框架和追求目标
And so, beginning that series we had O'Connor

因此那一系列我们以欧康纳开头
embodying a new critical craft of fiction that comes out of modernism,

他的小说所表达的新的批判性艺术来自现代主义思想
imagining nevertheless that the craft is

不过创造这艺术是通过
reflective of a transcendental order in the world, a religious order.

反映世界的超验秩序和宗教秩序实现
When we moved on to Nabokov, we had an author

学到纳博科夫时我们领略了一位作家
trying to imagine a work of art so autonomous from the world

努力创作一个如此独立自主的艺术作品
that it could be something like an autonomous form of life.

以至于它可以像自主形式的生活一样
That, of course, I argued in those lectures,

当然在那些课上我也提到过
opened it up for the threat of mortality.

那也带来了必死的命运
If you imagine your artwork is living, it can also die.

若你幻想你的作品是活的那它也会死
It's a kind of hauntedness that surrounds Nabokov's vision of aesthetic bliss

这对纳博科夫的审美幸福而言是挥之不去的困扰