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
as one's response to that autonomous artwork.

正如人们对自主性艺术的反应一样
Kerouac represents a whole group of writers, the Beats,

作为跨掉的一代的代表凯鲁亚克
who reject the formalism embodied by both O'Connor and Nabokov.

反对欧康纳和纳博科夫的形式主义观点
They reject that formalism as an impediment to language's access to the real,

他们反对形式主义是语言表达通向真实世界的障碍
and to our access to the real through language.

也不是我们通过语言去往真实世界的障碍
They dream of an unmediated relationship between experience and the word.

他们梦想着经历与辞藻表达之间的那种无隔阂的关系