that language is an unmediated form of access to the real:

语言是通向真实世界的无中介形态的说法
absolutely impossible for Barth to countenance that idea.

对巴斯来说他完全不可能赞同那种说法
He sees life as continually, always already mediated by language.

他认为语言在总是不断地从语言中介得出
Now, I should say, as someone from the class

现在我应该说正如你们班的某个同学
who came up to me after lecture and asked me about this,

课后问我的问题一样
that Barth's understanding of language as preceding human understanding,

巴斯认为语先于人类的理解力
preceding any sense of ourselves,

先于我们的任何感觉
in a sense always slipping out of our control,

它不在我们的掌控之中
is very much in concert with what was going on

从那时的高水平语言理论上讲
at very high-level language theory at that time.

它与正在发生的事情相呼应
So, the work of Jacques Lacan in France in the 1950s and '60s

19世纪五六十年代法国雅克·拉冈
and of jacques Derrida who brought deconstruction

和把解构主义带到美国的雅克·德里达