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拉什迪的作品之所以引入注目,与他抓住了历史发展的趋势相关。这个趋势就是全球各种族的融合互动,所谓推着购物车进入地球超市是也。文学恐怕将来不再是“越是民族的,就越是世界”的了。这些年拉什迪(SalmanRushdie)的作品几乎出一本引起一场轰动。《她脚下的那方土地》(The Ground Beneath HerFeet)今年甫出(Henry、Holt版),即招来Tim Parks在《纽约书评》上的万字评论(见5月6日该刊)。看惯了常规小说,读腻了八股书评,浏览一下拉什迪新作
The reason why Rushdie’s works attract attention is that he has grasped the trend of historical development. This trend is the integration of all ethnic groups in the world interaction, the so-called pushing the shopping cart into the supermarket is. I am afraid that literature will no longer be “more national, more world”. Almost a single hit by Salman Rushdie over the years has caused a sensation. The Ground Beneath HerFeet, just this year (Henry, Holt Edition), invokes Tim Parks’ comments on The New York Review of Books (see the May 6 issue). Used to seeing the conventional novels, tired of reading eight book reviews, browse Rushdie new work