I was thinking again about these old and seemingly unsolvable questions during my re-reading of a quite challenging novel by a close friend and a great writer, not very present in the vivid landscape of American letters of today. The theme, style, and echo of his work says a lot, I think, about our simplified world.
我是在阅读一本叛逆小说时开始再次思考这些老生常谈但似乎无法解决的问题的。这本小说的作者是我的一位好友，一位了不起的作家，但在当今美国生机勃勃的文坛中并不经常露脸。我认为，他的作品的主题、风格以及反响是对我们简单化世界的写照。