But he later broke away from this neoclassical sound to create a freer and more expressive modernist sound.
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What happens to those resources that the great modernist writers endowed language with so powerfully earlier in the century?
本世纪早期,杰出的现代主义作家们如此给力,地赋予语言一些资源?
What I want you to notice first of all is the kind of reader that's being invoked here for that modernist classic Ulysses.
首先希望你们注意到的是,所有开始阅读现代主义经典,《尤利西斯》的读者。
But, Nabokov's relationship to this modernist past is not just the burlesque that he visits on Eliot, is not just this complicated attraction and dis-identification that he works on with Proust.
但是,纳博科夫和现代主义者的关系不只是,他对艾略特的滑稽模仿,也不只是和普鲁斯特,复杂的吸引和不认同。
So Nabokov imbues that state of impersonality with certain kinds of emotion and then asks the reader to be as impersonal as that modernist artist also must be.
所以纳博科夫用某些特定的情感,来营造非个人化的境界,让读者像现代主义艺术家那样非个人化。
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。
He's connected to both those strains as well as the modernist strain.
怀特同时具备两种特征,但我先不去区分。
So, anyway. Okay. But now, that modernist tradition is something that Nabokov owes a lot to, but he always tries to distinguish himself from it. For Nabokov, the highest value is originality.
好吧,不管怎样,但现在,现代主义传统,很大程度得归功于纳博科夫,虽然他一直试图把自己,从中区别开来,对纳博科夫而言,最高尚的价值是独创性。
So, that is something these writers share with modernism, but there is one big difference and I want to exemplify that for you just by reading to you two parallel texts, one from the modernist canon and one from the Beat canon.
所以,这就是这些作者和现代主义的相似之处,但其中有个很大的区别,我想通过举例来说明,我给你们读两段类似的文字,分别是标准的现代主义风格和垮掉的一代的风格。
His terms are very much informed by a modernist sensibility of what literature is all about-- and I'm going to say more about what that is when I lecture on Lolita--but it's very much in contrast with that Ulysses ad. " Don't identify. It's not about you.
他的方式都是通过对文学的,现代主义式鉴赏来表达的,我在讲《洛丽塔》时会再详细说明,这和《尤利西斯》的广告有很大不同“,“无须认同,那与你无关,那是关于其他事情的”
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