美国是个重用广播媒介宣传的国家,正如前几个月的总统竞选,候选人所造的印象较他的实质更为重要。出版界最近的一个奇异现象是创造出一个多年来没有出版过书的“天才作家”。报纸期刊大作宣传,这个作家突然扬名,可是我对此人的作品并不十分熟悉,这是我对他的生平开始发生好奇的原因。是谁替这位“天才”突然作广大的宣传? 此人名哈罗·布劳德基(Harold Brodkey)。首先引起我注意的是耶鲁大学名教授哈罗·布鲁姆(Harold Bloom)的一段话。他称扬 The United States is a country that reuses the media’s propaganda. Just as the presidential election of the past few months has made, the candidate’s impression is more important than his essence. A recent bizarre phenomenon in the publishing world is the creation of a “genius writer” who has not published a book for many years. The publication of the newspaper journals was a big hit with the writer, but I was not very familiar with this man’s work, which is why I started curiosity about his life. Who made the sudden publicity for the “genius”? Harold Brodkey. The first thing that caught my attention was a remark by Harold Bloom, a Yale professor. He praised