What did we lose in our understanding of it as a literary object when the second half was not published?

将它置于文学作品之列来理解时,我们失去了什么？,书的后半部分没出版时？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

no surprise] as we refer to the objects they are meant to present - a defect in a literary text."

当我们讲到它们所想要表现的东西时,但这正是文学作品的一个缺点“

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With nonfiction, we don't want to be surprised.

在读非文学作品时，我们不需要惊讶。

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