“There is something almost pathological,” he concludes, “about a national narrative that is intoxicated by the spirit of freedom while failing to pay sufficient attention to its meaning.”

“一个国家在沉醉于自由的形态意念同时，对它的内涵却不求甚解，这不是很反常吗。” 他总结道。

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My own idiosyncratic bent as a writer, no doubt a legacy of my years spent in the theater, is to look for a narrative in the many competing dramas unfolding on the national stage.

作为作者，我个人的倾向是在众多竞争在国家舞台上的剧本中寻找一种叙述，这无疑是我和戏剧打交道留下的后遗症。

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Judged from the aspects of narrative modes and dialogues, the novel can be said to be a inferior parody of Western novels rather than a "retreat" and return to "folk" and "national" literature.

从叙述方式、视点转换、人物对话等方面看，它不是向“民间”和“民族”的“撤退”和回归，而是对西方小说的拙劣摹仿。

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Indeed, the decade since the attacks has destroyed the very possibility of a common national narrative in this country.

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