as we've seen, establishing a fiction that works to place himself at the scene of a nativity that obviously occurs 1600 years and change before his own birth.

我们也看到了，他创建了一个虚构的景象,把自己放进了基督诞生的幻景中,而这些比他出生早1600年发生并不断在改变。

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It's as if Nabokov allows us to see the mask of literature, to actually see it there palpably doing its work, so we can become self-aware of how we respond.

就好像Naboko让我们看到了文学的面具，让我们看到了它的功能，所以我们对自己的回应有感知了。

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