Because we're as skeptical about skepticism as we are about anything else we're likely to raise our eyebrows and say, "Hmm. Doesn't this guy Foucault think he's an author?
因为我们对怀疑论的怀疑,肯定和我们扬起眉毛质疑其他事物是一样的,我们会说:“嗯,这个叫福柯的人自称是作家吗?
And so to see somebody so prolific and who's been that way since he was a teenager, I mean,
所以,(我们)看到这样一个从青年时期就多产的作家,我的意思是,
Those are the categories of value that we tend to associate or to affiliate with our other favorite writers, writers as diverse as Shakespeare and Virginia Woolf, for example.
我们往往将这类正面的感受,与其他一些喜爱的作家相联系,这些作家千差万别,例如莎士比亚和佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫。
And,as Chateaubriand said,the writer, "I don't know what we must believe but we must believe in something," and he gets down on his knees and prays.
如作家夏多布里昂所言,"我不知道我们能相信什么,但我们必须相信点什么",然后他屈膝跪下开始祈祷
But like, someone has to tell us that Shakespeare was this great writer.
但必须有人教导我们,莎士比亚是位伟大的作家。
I want to start my lecture today looking back to that handout I gave you -but didn't give you a discussion of--a couple of days ago, ] from that essay Good Readers and Good Writers that I quoted at the very beginning of class this term.
今天我将用几天前发给你们的,却没有进行讨论的资料,开始我们的课程,从那篇叫做“好的作家和好的读者“的文章开始,我曾在本学期课程的最开始引用过它。
a sort of shorter interviews with writers in America with sort of sillier questions,
这个系列记录了我们对美国作家一些比较简短的采访。我们问了一些比较无聊的问题,
Could you tell us about your favorite author? Which works do you like the most?
能跟我们说说你最喜欢的作家吗?你最喜欢哪部作品?
we're actually rebounding from Writers' Strike that happened 2 or 3 years ago.
我们其实已经从两三年前的作家罢工中复苏了。
Could you tell us about the American author that you like the most?
能和我们谈一谈你最喜欢的美国作家吗?
There are lots of other writers we could include, including those two that I named, that would equally illustrate some of the threads that I've got on the syllabus now, but these are the ones for various practical and more substantive reasons that I have chosen.
我们其实还可以讲很多其他作家,包括刚才提到的那两位,他们也能阐述我大纲里的一些主题思想,但是因为各种实用并且更为实在的原因的存在,我才选了这些作家的作品。
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