over which, if you can still stand my style

记忆中的如果读者还能忍受我这形容的话
(I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set:

(此手记写于监视下) 婴儿时代记忆中的太阳就此沉落
Okay. So this is a knight's move:

这儿用了跨越性手法
from traumatic event of the mother's death--

由于母亲的死
should be the center of the sentence; it's just dismissed--

这里本应是句子的中心但只一笔带过
hopped beyond into this stylistic wash, a golden haze.

随即跳转到另一风格金色的薄雾
And he goes on to describe the sensations of early childhood.

接着他继续描述他早期的童年
So, the strategy of the knight's move is to frustrate your expectations,

跨越性手法的应用在于挫败读者的期待
to leap over the apparently important events into something else

从明显非常重要的事情
characterized by a kind of aesthetic play,

跳到以审美游戏为目的的其他情节上
and these parentheses are a real icon of that.

括号正是这种风格的标志
A critic has counted 450 sets of them in this novel,

一位批评家曾在这部小说中数出450个括号