Nobody reads it except specialists like me.

除了我这样的专家没人会去读的
Lolita was a bestseller.

《洛丽塔》是本畅销书
Nabokov made so much money from it he was able to retire to Switzerland.

纳博科夫靠它赚了这么多钱都可以去瑞士养老了
And you should ask yourself what about this novel makes that possible;

你们好好想想为什么这本小说取得了这样的成功
why is that, that you have this mcNugget version of the modernist novel?

为什么你们要读这本麦乐鸡版的现代主义小说
And I don't really mean that to disparage the novel,

我不是想要贬低这本小说
but it makes it clear that there's some kind of difference between this

不过很明显这部小说与纳博科夫
and the works that Nabokov is looking back to.

所回顾的从前的作品有很大不同
I want to think a little bit more about this idea of a McFate.

我想再提一下麦克菲特的问题
There is a kind of short circuit between the Joycean idea of

乔伊斯描写日常生活和使日常生活照艺术化的流程进行
taking ordinary life and transforming it into an aesthetic order,

两者间存在某种不连贯
because the ordinary is already aesthetic in the book.

因为书中的普通生活已经艺术化了