他说，作为写实文学已经变得比小说类题材更让人陌生，它已经让一个讽刺作家难以在“人类命运曲线”前保持领先地位。
He says that as nonfiction has gotten stranger than fiction, it's become harder for a satirist to stay ahead of "the curve of human weirdness."
在此之前，伟大的文学体裁，如讽刺作品、史诗、悲剧，甚至诗歌；小说同这些比较起来，显得要低级许多。
Up to that point, it was regarded as rather low compared to great literary forms such as satire, epic, tragedy or even lyric.
多尔蒂是个小说家，也是唐纳德•巴塞尔姆精彩传记的作者，还是个作品令人回味的记者和讽刺文学评论家。
A novelist and the author of an acclaimed biography of Donald Barthelme, Mr Daugherty is an evocative writer and an acute literary critic.
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