This is Barth's effort to enclose the silence into something readable, to contain that impossibility in the structure of the story.
这是巴斯想把沉默嵌套到某些可阅读的的,在故事的结构中包含一些不可能的努力。
So, Barth is taking a risk that this little craft project emphasizes and that the stories in the book act out.
所以,这个小小的手工作品强调了,书中的故事,展示了巴斯冒的风险。
Self-alienation, in Barth's work, is the product of desire. Desire, love: that's the moment when you're supposed to be perfectly present.
巴斯作品中,自我疏离是欲望的产物,欲望,爱:,那是你应该在场的时刻。
I want to suggest to you finally that Barth is interested in the oral tradition above all other traditions in this book.
我想提醒你们在这本书里,超越其他传统,巴斯终于对口头传统感兴趣了。
Even so experimental a book as John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse is totally absorbed in the problem of what it would mean to write about yourself.
就算约翰,巴思的《迷失在游乐场》这么一部实验小说,也在专注一个问题,就是写关于自己经历的意义。
Why does Barth put this in the front of his story?
为什么巴斯在书的第一页要放这个呢?
I really liked the tricks that Barth played with vocabulary.
学生:我非常喜欢巴斯用词的花招。
Barth wrote a famous essay just the year before these stories came out all in one volume. They had been written over a series of years, got a lot of exposure--called "The Literature of Exhaustion."
在写完这一卷故事的前一年,巴斯写了一篇著名的论文,在60年代,叫《枯竭的文学》
Let me ask you a question first about John Barth and the stories that I asked you to read. Which of them was your favorite? Some cackling I hear None of them?Which of them was your favorite?
我先来问你们一个关于约翰·巴斯和我让你们读的,故事的问题,你们最喜欢哪个故事,我听到一些咯咯笑的声音,都不喜欢吗,你们最喜欢哪个故事啊?
some chemistry class will show up in here, and someone will wonder what that is, and Barth will have done his work, or we will have done Barth's work for him. Now, let me ask you another question. Who is the narrator of "Night-Sea Journey"?
这里将会上化学课,有人会想,这到底是什么,巴斯将完成他的工作,或是我们将为他完成工作,现在,我来问你们第二个问题,《夜航》的叙述者是谁?
So, if you only get a sniff of the tear gas in Barth, here you get a whole draught full of it.
如果你在Barth问到了一点催泪瓦斯的气息,那么你在这将感受到满是它的气味。
If Barth only gestures towards that world, the politics of that decade, Pynchon actually lets us see it.
如果说Barth只是,向那个时代的,政治世界,故作姿态的话,那么Pynchon是让我们认识了它。
Jacques Lacan So, the work of Jacques Lacan in France in the 1950s and '60s and of Jacques Derrida who brought deconstruction to the United States, actually to Johns Hopkins where Barth was teaching.
所以,于20世纪50年代和60年代间在法国的作品;,将结构主义带到美国的,Johns,Hopkins大学,当时Barth在那任教。
Barth is not alone in thinking these things about language.
对这些语言问题的思考Barth并不是孤军奋斗。
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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