What that novel did not do,however, was sell one million copies the day of its release.

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One kind of question, then, I was raising is: what context do you use to read any novel?

我所提出的一类问题是：,你一般采用什么语境去理解小说？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And there you are, and, for the next 40 years, no one ever sees the novel that you wrote, or the autobiography that you wrote originally.

就这样，在这之后的40年里，没有人看到你写的小说，或者你最初的自传。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's looks like an ancient Greek novel, except it lacks the one thing every good Greek novel had,sex.

像是一部古希腊小说，只不过缺少了希腊小说普遍具有的“性“

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But I have a favorite line in his novel called The Hamlet, where Faulkner has one of his characters say, and I quote: "Only thank God men have done learned how to forget quick what they ain't brave enough to cure."

但我最爱他在小说《村子》里的一句话,他笔下的一个角色说道,"感谢上帝,让人类学会了怎样,迅速的忘记那些我们没勇气面对的事"

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Is it a political one? What should the novel strive to do?

小说发展的方向在哪里？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This is one question I want you to think about as you finish this novel.

这个问题我希望你们在读完小说之后思考。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Now you do have an opportunity-- this class does- that my class has never had before, and that is to nominate your own novel for the last one that we read, one of your choice.

现在你真的有了个机会-,在我的课上有了个机会-,去推荐一本小说作为我们的最后一本读物,你们自己的选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And for me it's fun because I may not know the novel that you end up picking, and so it is a kind of challenge for me to take a novel that you've chosen and come to grips with it myself It may be one that I know.

我也觉得很好玩,因为我可能不知道你们最后选择的小说，所以对我来说,认真对待你们选的一本书很有挑战性,可能是一本我知道的书。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I want to suggest to you that he did that because a woman is expected to occupy certain conventional roles at this moment, and we see her in one at the very beginning of the novel.

因为在这个时代,女人是被要求扮演,一定的传统角色的，我们在小说的一开始就看到了她。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Now, why the Fat Lady? It's this mythical, incredibly humanly embodied-- whenever you see a fat lady in a novel, one of the first things you want to ask is: why does that person need to be excessively embodied?

现在，为什么是胖太太，这是个神话，人们呈现了，无论你什么时候看到一个胖太太,在小说里，你首先会想问：,为什么那个人需要被这样过多的描写呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It is really going to give you a whole packaged reading of Franny and Zooey.We have just the one day on this novel, and what I'm going to be doing for you is modeling the way literary critics use evidence to advance an argument.

实际上，我从整体上全面的给你们讲解这部小说,关于这部小说我们只有一天的时间，我将要做的是为你们建立起,文学评论家使用例子来论证的模式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选