Very self-consciously in this moment, that like Milton's Satan,

他在此刻非常有自我意识好像米尔顿的撒旦
he's a character that will live in the tradition,

他是一个存在于传统中的人物
that will never die out in the imagination of readers.

他永存于读者的想象中
It's a remarkably ambitious claim to make for your own character

这是对你的人物性格一个相当鲜明的展示
But when you read it with that passage I just read,

但当你读到我刚刚读的那段内容
about the impossibility of dividing him back into his origins,

那段将他的过去与他的出生分离是不可能的内容时
you begin to see McCarthy's literary ambition, and that is to add to the

你就可以看出麦卡锡的文学野心他要以一种有意义的方式
tradition in a significant way.

将传统凝于其中
McCarthy says about writing novels that it's not worth doing--

麦卡锡说写小说不是一件值得做的事情
you cannot write a good book-- unless it's about life and death.

如果你不触及生命与死亡你就不可能写出一本好书
He dismisses, for example, Proust and Henry James as important

他说除了普鲁斯特和亨利.詹姆斯
writers on this ground, because they're not writing novels

他们是当下的著名作家但他们却没有写