在1951年,威廉·福克纳出人意料地把沃尔夫列为当代美国作家的前茅,他自己居其次,帕索斯第三,海明威第四。福克纳对他这种排列作了如下的解释:“我把沃尔夫列为第一,因为我们都失败了,可是沃尔夫最能尽力而为,想讲的最多,因此他的失败最为杰出……。我敬佩沃尔夫,因为他全力以赴,想把话全都说了,甚至情愿把文体、连贯性以及所有精确的原则加以扬弃,而希望把人类心 In 1951, William Faulkner unexpectedly ranked Wolf as the forerunner of contemporary American writers, followed by himself, Pasos III, and Hemingway fourth. Faulkner explained his arrangement as follows: "I put Wolf as the first, because we have failed, but Wolf can do his best, want to talk about the most, so his failure The most outstanding .... I admire Wolfe, for he did his best and wanted to say everything, even willing to subjugate the style, consistency and all the precise principles, and hope that the human heart