That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

  • -- Georg Brandes 布兰德斯

我们这个时代的文学作品就是以这样一种方式呈现的,它在辩论问题。

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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

文学的功能,通过它所有的变异,一直是让我们意识到自我的特殊性,以及自我在与社会和文化的冲突中的高度权威。从这个意义上说,文学是颠覆性的。

We have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time.

在过去一年里,我们面对着比现代任何时候都更加疏远和愤世嫉俗的选民,毫无疑问,明年也将如此。

Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.

一旦你的孩子长大了,走出家门,事情就不会停止了。他们每天都和我通电话;我与他们的问题密切相关。

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

这是文学和读者之间最亲密的关系:他们把文本当作自己的一部分,当作一种财产。

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.

一个问题最重要的不是它的解决方案,而是我们在寻找解决方案时获得的力量。

Things change all the time, mostly in little ways. That's how it goes, I guess.

事情总是在变化,大部分都是微小的变化。我想事情就是这样。

The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.

辩论的目的是探讨问题,而不是结束问题。

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

但我确实认为有必要进行辩论。