《走向时间的尽头》是厄普代克写的第四十七本书。批评家玛格丽特·艾特伍德把写小说比作在尼亚加拉大瀑布上蒙着眼腈走钢丝。厄普代克走了第四十七回了,还是这样技艺高超。没有一个美国作家能写得这么久,还写得这么精彩。《走向时间的尽头》兴许隐喻的就是美利坚合众国的尽头。本书的时间定在21世纪的第三个十年。经过一场你死我活的战争,合众国解体了,也没多少人怀恋它。全能的美元被地方纸钞代替;难民们不是从墨 “Towards the End of Time” is the forty-seventh book by Updike. Critic Margaret Atwood compared his novels to blindfolded eyelashes on Niagara Falls. Updike walked forty-seventh back, or so superb. No American writer has been able to write for so long and has written so splendidly. The metaphor of “Toward the end of time” is the end of the United States of America. The book’s time is set in the third decade of the 21st century. After a war on your life and death, the United States broke up and not many people love it. Almighty dollar is replaced by local paper money; refugees are not from ink