Now I want to switch gears, just for the last couple minutes, and ask you: what do you see when you read this novel?

在最后的这几分钟，我想换换话题，问问你们：，在看这部小说时,你们读到了什么？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I'm going to talk a little bit about its publishing history, its compositional history, actually, at the end of my two lectures on the novel.

我打算在讲这部小说的最后两次课上，略微谈一点关于这部小说的出版历史，实际上也是创作历史。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's okay to stick around for a while, but if the high point of the story occurs in chapter 2 and then there are another 67 chapters after that, you think, this was not a well-constructed novel.

有一段下跌并没有关系，但是如果故事高潮在第二章出现2,后面还有67章，你会觉得这部小说结构不好。

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Yes. Okay. Sometimes I do get students who have just an image of this novel in their mind, or they read it when they were in high school and have a sort of irrational, passionate love for it.

好的，有时候我的确会有一些学生,他们脑子里有一个这部小说的形象，或者在高中里读过,对之有一股毫无理由的热爱。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This is after the man from the filling station has given Haze some gas and not charged him for it, a very unusual act of kindness in this novel.

这是在一个加油站男人给了海斯一些汽油后,且没有向他要钱，这是在这部小说中非常少见的善行。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Yeah. A lot of attention to physical detail and physical movement,and that's connected to this point about confined spaces. It's the movement of bodies within confined spaces that really preoccupies this novel.

嗯，很多的注意力放到了肢体上的细节和,肢体上的运动，这和限定的空间有关,就是这个在限定空间里的肢体运动,让人迷上了这部小说。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Maybe that's miniscule, but maybe it's going to be fun for you, especially if you have a sort of theatrical bent, or if you like getting up in front of people, or if you're just really, really passionate about a novel that you want everyone to read.

这可能不值一提，但可能对你们来说很有意思，尤其如果你喜欢戏剧，或者喜欢在人们面前表现，或者你只是对这部小说很有热情,希望大家都来读。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选