It's like a little novella. Scholars are divided over the authenticity of the Egyptian elements in the story.

它就像一篇短篇小说，学者们意见有分歧,关于故事中埃及元素的可信性。

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It's sort of an epic novel that takes place in 19th century American West.

这是一部史诗小说，记录了19世纪美国西部的故事。

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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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Carrie", "The Stand", stuff like that, good horror books and science fiction.

卡丽》、《看台》等等，也都是很好的恐怖故事和科幻小说。

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Now as it happens--this is a novel--as it happens, our hero looks rather like the other man.

小说中故事就这样发生了，我们的主角和另一个人长得很像。

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You can feel that back story to the novel. Yeah. What else?

你可以感受到这部小说的背景故事，嗯还有吗？

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That's why she produced story after story after story that can be read in these formal ways with these symbols that accrue meaning and deepen and change over the course of the novel or the story.

这就是为什么她写了一个又一个故事,有着象征意义的形式正式的文章，自然而然地形成某种意义,深刻并改变着小说或故事的发展。

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I think that's also why Barth chose to write this story in the perfect short story form. And that form is also given to us in Lost in the Funhouse, on page 95, when we get the diagram of Freitag's Triangle.

我认为这也是为什么巴斯选择用完美的短篇小说的,模式写这个故事的原因，这个模式在,《迷失在开心馆》里也有体现，在第95页，就是Freitag三角的图解。

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