现在谁还读随笔?这问题在从前是随笔家们首先要问的,因为——用约翰·格劳斯的话说——“那时候写随笔并不为说明什么,只为写写而已。”十九、二十世纪之交,甚至还出现了一个新词,叫作“比罗尔文”,专指奥古斯廷·比罗尔之流在他们的书里所 Who now reads the essay? The question was, in the past, what the essayists first asked, because - in the words of John Grouse - “writing essays at that time did not mean anything but writing. At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there appeared to be even a new word, known as ”Birol", referring specifically to the stream of Augustine Birrol in their book