He's going to try to give us a living prose, but this is the end against which it finds itself pressed.

试图给我们一部活生生的作品，但是这中留白成了,他最终努力的结果。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Well, one thing that a literary argument can do is take something small like this and try to give an account for it, so that's what I'm going to do.

好了，文学争论能对向这样小细节,进行描写说明，所以，我现在要做的是。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选