曾经给报纸写过《贝娄传》(詹姆斯·阿特拉斯著,兰登书屋2000年版)书讯,但动态类的东西终嫌不过瘾,读到的少写出的也少。2001年5月31日《纽约书评》上刊登的查尔斯·西米克的长文《这思考着的人的喜剧》弥补了我的缺憾,这篇文章占去了57页正文的3页。西米克的文章开头引用了一句俄罗斯谚语:“他人的灵魂是一片黑暗的森林。”说贝娄的小说吸引他的不是情节,而是里面的声音。贝娄的主人公行动的 Once wrote to the newspaper “Bellow Biography” (James Atlas, Random House, 2000 edition), but the dynamics of the class were not at all enjoyable, with little to read. The short comic of Charles Simik, published May 31, 2001 in The New York Review of the Book, “This Thinking Man’s Comedy” made up for my shortcomings, which took up 3 pages of 57 pages. Simik’s article begins with a Russian proverb: “The soul of another is a dark forest.” "It is not the plot, but the voice, that Bellow’s novel attracts him. Bellow’s protagonist action