Remember, when I asked you about the specificity of America in On the Road, and I asked you to think about whether there was anything there at all?

记得当我问你们在《在路上》中关于美国的特性,还有在那里到底有没有什么东西,在《在路上》中？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And what does it mean to be an American in this novel? So, that's the question I'd like to take up today first. Coming from Lolita, the vision of America in On the Road looks quite different.

这对于小说里你是一个美国人又意味着什么？,这是我今天想让你们思考的第一个问题，《洛丽塔》里，描写的美国景象非常不同于《在路上》之中的景象。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选