He's obviously been asking her about the sources of some of the images and characters and themes in Wise Blood.

他一直问奥康纳,关于《慧血》里面一些形象、,人物和主题的来源。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So, Christ is that one to whom the little children can come, and I think she cultivates that childlike sense in her self-presentation.

基督是个连小孩都能沟通的人，我认为奥康纳在她的,自我呈现中也营造了那种童稚感。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

O'Connor, you may also know, has been understood as a religious writer.

你们也许知道奥康纳一直以来，被视为一位宗教作家。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Now, of course, O'Connor was very good at imbuing her writing with repeated symbols that grow and accrue meaning across the text.

当然，奥康纳非常善于,使文章充满那些贯穿全文,且意义不断积累、,不断强化的象征。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So what O'Connor does, is she presents a sense of the world imbued with structure and meaning, but a structure and meaning that looks essentially blank.

所以奥康纳所做的是，呈现一个充满了构架,和实义感的世界，只不过这些构架和实义,看起来完全是空无一物的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Flannery O'Connor's work raises questions of a similar kind, but they look very different.

弗兰纳里，奥康纳的作品提出了,相似的问题，但是它们看起来不一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Then, when we open up the front, we see the author's note to the second edition, and this was something O'Connor added to the novel in 1962.

然后当我们打开书的前几页，会看到作者对第二版的注解，这是奥康纳在1962年加上去的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Flannery O'Connor, as most of you probably know, is a Southern writer.

正如大家所知，弗兰纳里，奥康纳是个南方作家。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This is very typical in tone for O'Connor.

这是典型的奥康纳语气。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And there's a huge critical industry around Flannery O'Connor, and at the core of it is a body of criticism that finds and articulates and explains the religious meanings of her texts.

奥康纳的周围是个庞大的评论圈，其核心是对她文中的,宗教意义的,发现、表达和阐释。

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So O'Connor is giving us a version of the road, and I want you to keep this in mind because of course we're going to read On the Road, and we are going to see a major road trip in Lolita, actually two of them. So the iconography of the American road is something that is going to come back to us.

奥康纳让我们看到了一种版本的路，我希望你们将它在心里,因为我们肯定要读《在路上》,也会在《洛丽塔》里,看到一次重要的公路旅行，事实上，是两次,之后我们还会看到。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

If we think about this, analogize it to how Haze looks, it's a way of looking at O'Connor's fiction that sees nothing but the theology behind it, that sees nothing but the Christian iconography.

我们好好想想这个，再将此与Haze的形象联系起来，除了神学和圣像,我们看不到任何东西，这就是阅读奥康纳作品的一种方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选