He's without question the most compelling figure, certainly, in the first two books and, I think, arguably in the entire poem.

他是前两卷书中最引人注目的角色，当然，也可以认为是这首诗中最引人注目的。

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There's no question that it's Satan who in these first two books completely overwhelms our imagination.

毫无疑问撒旦在前两卷里,完全颠覆了我们的想象。

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Barth wrote a famous essay just the year before these stories came out all in one volume. They had been written over a series of years, got a lot of exposure--called "The Literature of Exhaustion."

在写完这一卷故事的前一年,巴斯写了一篇著名的论文，在60年代，叫《枯竭的文学》

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