然而它的给力在于它对人性的描写；

But its power lies in its depiction of humanity;

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但他对人性所写出的有趣生动的描述，比起另外两位，他对南非的描写更有可读性。

But his portrait of South Africa, alive with delicious vignettes across a range of humanity, is more nuanced-and more readable-than those of his two counterparts.

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在公园里，在塞纳河边的草地上，我读着巴尔扎克、左拉、科莱特和福楼拜：他们那些描写社会和人性的小说。

In parks, and on the stretches of grass beside the Seine, I read Balzac and Zola and Colette and Flaubert:2 novels about society and the human heart.

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