And he says of his own writing, "I had tried to convey something of what it felt like to be a Negro, and no one had been able to listen.

作者自己也这小说里写道：“我曾试着去和身边人,传达那种我想成为黑人的强烈感觉，但没人能听进去。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He wants us to feel, and it is in fact feeling, that he credits to novels, that allows him to imagine that he himself could have a different life.

而是让读者身临其境，这里其实表现了,作者对小说的自信。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There is a very different image of the personified word in Lolita, and I'm going to refer now to an essay, a 1992 essay, Martin Amis by the British novelist Martin Amis.

Lolita》呈现的则是人性世界的另一种景象，我将要提到一篇1992年的论文，作者是英国小说家。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选