然而,有些读者将会感到一种对叙事承诺的违背。
However, some readers will feel they have a good case for breach of narrative promise.
如果麦卡锡的叙事速度还不及读者停下来思考的速度,那如此用心险恶的高谈阔论难免会让人觉得荒谬可笑。
Such sinister high hokum might be ridiculous if McCarthy didn't keep it moving faster than the reader can pause to think about it.
不过要把叙述整部作品的重任都放到不可靠的第一人称叙事者那摇晃的肩膀上去,也的确需要作家的自我克制,和对读者的信任。
Surely, it takes much more restraint-and far more faith in one's readers-to place the full heft of a book in the bumbling hands of an unreliable first person.
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