That has a typical Bildungsroman structure, the structure of a story about a boy who goes out from his home and sort of becomes a man through his travels.

这里具备一个典型成长小说的框架，故事结构讲的是,一个背井离乡的男孩,在旅途中长大成人。

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He understood the middle-west, he understood what Targita was doing in his novel, and that movie has a very different orientation from Citizen Kane.

在那里成长会很愉快,他懂得中西部,他懂得塔基塔小说描述的境况。

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Trouble the Water; a novel about growing up in the South by Melvin Dixon, a great novel that gets little attention, and his lifelong struggle to understand just how Southern he was in New York.

再如梅尔文·迪克逊的《水的困扰》,是一本关于南方的成长经历的小说,一本伟大却不出名的小说,他终其一生都在试图理解,为何他在纽约那么像个南方人

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