八十年代后期美国文学进入了衰颓的境地,老的差不多都已去世或停笔不写,中年的又濒临一个笔涩的时期,新的也还没有产生;或者虽然产生,还不成为大手笔。与三十年代的文坛人材辈出,如海明威、费兹杰拉德、杜斯·巴索斯、福克纳等,都是三十岁左右,就崭露头角的盛况迥然不同。我曾经询问过美国文 In the late 1980s, American literature entered a state of decay. Almost all the old people either died or did not write down. Middle-aged were on the verge of a period of penmanship and the new ones did not come into existence. . With thirties literary talent in large numbers, such as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dusi Bassos, Faulkner, etc., are about 30 years old, on the budding grand occasion very different. I once asked American