亨利·罗斯的长篇小说《不妨称其为睡眠》出版于1934年,当时正是社会现实主义风行美国文坛的时代。由于这部作品在当时所引起的反应毁誉不一,良莠难辨,一个心力衰竭的时代因而在正视它之前,就匆匆将其打入冷宫,沉入喧哗与骚动的历史。它在寂寂中消磨了三十年,直到新版平装本问世 The publication of Henry Rose’s novel, “It may be called a sleep,” was published in 1934, at a time when social realism was prevalent in the American literary world. As the reaction of the work at the time was widely divided, mixed with good and bad, a heart-failure era hurriedly pushed it into limbo and immersed itself in the history of noise and commotion. It spent thirty years in silence until the new paperback came out