He is imagining a literary form that is soaked in the stuff of social life.

他在构想着一种渗入生活的文学形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Nabokov When we moved on to Nabokov, we had an author trying to imagine a work of art so autonomous from the world that it could be something like an autonomous form of life.

接下来我们说了，这是一位试图将文学作品想象为发自世界,以至于成为生活的一种自主形式的作家。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选