It makes it into a real literary object, sort of like a modernist text.

他们让这书像个真正的文学读本，像是种现代主义读本。

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What did we lose in our understanding of it as a literary object when the second half was not published?

将它置于文学作品之列来理解时,我们失去了什么？,书的后半部分没出版时？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It makes it into a real literary object, sort of like a modernist text.

他们让这书像个真正的文学读本，像是种现代主义读本。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选