2001年,人类刚步入新世纪之春,一本被誉为“继亨利·詹姆斯《小说的艺术》之后”的又一力作——马克·麦格尔(Mark McGurl,1966—)的批评专著《小说艺术》。在这本书里,马克独辟蹊径,把小说的艺术提高到艺术境界的高度来分析。作者马克·麦格尔现任美国加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校英语助理教授。此前,他在哈佛大学读完本科,曾在《纽约时报》和《纽约书评》工作过一段时间,后在巴尔的摩的约翰斯·霍普金斯大学人文中心攻读哲学博士学位,先后在《表现画》、《批评探究》、《美国文学史》等期刊发表过文章。麦格尔 In 2001, when mankind was just entering the spring of the new century, another masterpiece known as the “behind Henry Henri James” novel was criticism by Mark McGurl (1966-) “Novel Art”. In this book, Mark explores the novel’s art to the height of its artistic realm. Author Mark Macquarie is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to his recent undergraduate studies at Harvard, he spent some time in The New York Times and The New York Book Review, then Ph.D. in Humanities at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, “,” Criticism “,” American literary history "and other journals published articles. MacGill