that has a lot to do with the work of the artist.

它与艺术家的作品有莫大的关系
Nabokov, in 1966 he said this:

纳博科夫在一九六六年说
"The greatest masterpieces of twentieth-century prose"--this is convenient; take this down-- "are,

"二十世纪最伟大的佳作是这点很方便你们记一下
in this order: Joyce's ulysses,

乔伊斯的《尤利西斯》
Kafka's Transformation"-- that is, The Metamorphosis--

卡夫卡的《变形记》
"Bely's St. Petersburg," a pretty obscure Russian avant-garde novel,

贝力的《圣彼得堡》一部相当晦涩的俄国先锋小说
"and the first half of Proust's fairy tale, in Search of Lost Time. "

还有普鲁斯特的童话《追忆似水年华》的上半部分
I'm not sure the fairy tale should remind you of that first meeting

我不知道童话会不会让你们想起周一那节课
between Humbert and Lolita that we looked at on Monday,

讲到的亨伯特与洛丽塔的第一次会面
described in fairy tale terms.

我们描述时就用到"童话"这个词
But actually, the thing I want to think about is a crude pun

事实上这里我想到的是一个粗俗的双关语
there, a "fairy" tale.

一个"兔子"[译注:男同性恋]的故事