In other words, it was written directly in the aftermath of a bombshell published by Leon Trotsky called Literature and Revolution in 1926.

也就是说，它是针对,1926年列夫托洛斯基发表的引起轰动的,文学与革命，而写的。

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Trotsky is not simple-minded in his literary taste, and he doesn't just sort of spontaneously insist that everybody has to write socialist realism.

列夫，托洛斯基的文学品味并不单一，他也不要求每人都必须,按以社会主义现实主义写作。

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Trotsky's Literature and Revolution is a brilliant book, an attack on many things and a defense of certain other things, but in particular and very painfully an attack on the formalists.

列夫，托洛斯基的文学与革命非常精彩，它攻击了许多当时的理论，同时也维护了一些，但是它特别猛烈地攻击了形式主义者。

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In the meantime, Trotsky's book is a shot fired across the bow of those forms of "aestheticism"--quote, unquote -which can be understood as self-involved, self-preoccupied, and indifferent to history and class struggle.

同时，托洛斯基的攻击唯美主义,他这样评价，它,唯美主义可以被理解为一种纯粹的自我欣赏，漠视历史和阶级斗争。

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Nevertheless, Trotsky's book is a provocation.

但是托洛斯基的书是一个挑衅。

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It's a challenge, and Eikhenbaum's essay that you read for today is in part--to a degree that it can't really come out and talk about, or doesn't want to come out and talk about it a response to Trotsky's book.

而艾肯鲍姆在论文中,却并没有回应托洛斯基的书，艾肯鲍姆并不想回应,不愿站出来回答。

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