The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

  • -- Paul de Man 保罗·德曼

写作的矛盾在于,它既可以被看作是一种行为,也可以被看作是一种解释过程,一种与之不一致的行为之后的解释过程。因此,它既肯定又否定自己的本性。

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The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

当作家全身心投入到自己的内心深处,并不是要揭示他的个性,而是要揭示他在这个复杂的社会中所处的环境和所支持的那个人的时候,他就已经全身心投入了。

The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.

作家问一个人对他的作品有什么看法,这个人就会被施以酷刑,而没有义务说出真相。