What you find when you actually open up Pynchon's novels is an incredibly rich world of human detritus, of history.

当你真正看Pynchon的书,你能够发现一个难以置信的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

After that, I began a series of readings of novels that emphasized more what you might call the history of literature, the history of literature's forms and ambitions.

在那之后，我讲了一系列的,强调文学史，关于文学形式和理想的，历史的小说阅读。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选