2001年是美国文学创作的丰收年,它给当代美国文坛带来了三位主要偶像:诺贝尔文学奖获得者绍尔·贝罗和两位潜在的诺贝尔文学奖的有力竞争者——菲利浦·洛思和约翰·厄普代克。然而,尽管他们的作品在文学创作上的奇异构思得到了大量的好评,其中却只有一部挤进了《纽约时报》的畅销书排行榜,而目在榜上仅仅呆了一个星期。你可以想像,现在的作家都需要各种宣传媒体的支持,每一部小说都乐于被报纸、杂志、广播电台和网络杂志作为重大的文化事件而进行追踪报道。厄普代克先生的新作《阁楚德和克劳迪奥斯》(克诺福出版社出版),读起 2001 is a bumper year for American literary creation, bringing three major idols to contemporary American literature: Sauer Belo, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and two potential contenders for the Nobel Prize for Literature - Lipo Roth and John Updike. However, while their works have gained a lot of praise for their fanciful ideas in literature, only one of them squeezed into the New York Times bestseller list and spent only a week on the list. As you can imagine, writers now need the support of various media outlets. Each novel is happy to be followed up by newspapers, magazines, radio stations and online magazines as major cultural events. Updike’s new book, “Ge Chu and Claudius” (Knorr-Brendan Publishing House), read