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
They don't think so much of language

他们不过多地把语言当做
as a mediating force as an expressive force.

一种中介力量而把它当做一种表现力
I argued in my second lecture on On the Road that,

我在讲第二课《在路上》时说过
in the end, that dream looks quite deflated

最终那个梦想貌似令人相当沮丧