哈罗德·布鲁姆(Harold Bloom)已经是八十多岁的老人了,就在几年前,他依然笔耕不辍,活跃于美国批评界,不过他的表现却越来越像赞赏家,而非批评家。这一切其实可以从出版于1994年的《西方正典》(The Western Canon)中看出端倪。这部颇为畅销的批评著作在重树经典意识、抨击“憎恨学派”偏见的同时,也在很多地方表现出了布鲁姆个人的偏见。11年后,江宁康先生翻译的《西方正典》由译林出版社出版,该书随即成为当年最值得一读的文学理论[1] Harold Bloom, already in his 80s, was just a few years ago penniless and active in the American critics, but his performance grew more and more like a patron , Not critics. All this can actually be seen in The Western Canon, published in 1994. This rather popular critique of work, while rebuilding the classic sense of criticism of the “hate school” prejudices, but also in many places showed Broome’s personal prejudices. Eleven years later, the translation of “Western Canon” by Jiang Ningkang was published by Yilin Press and became the literary theory most read for the year [1]