一天傍晚,小说家休·沃尔波尔随手拿起一本付印样,那是出版社寄来请他写书评的大样。他看着看着,忽然觉得不对劲,翻回封面一看,是毛姆的长篇小说《寻欢作乐》。毛姆在书中描写了一个名叫基尔的文坛小混混,这人野心勃勃,极其善于经营自己,用迎合大众的方式写小说,博取世俗功名,“一有机会就请人采访,请记者吃饭,把文学当作功名大餐”。沃尔波尔看得直冒冷汗——毛姆分明是用这个基尔暗讽他嘛。沃尔波尔一夜没睡,大清早就 One evening, the novelist Hugh Walpole picked up a copy of the sample, which was sent to the publisher for a book review. He looked at it, suddenly feeling wrong, turned back to cover a look, is Maugham’s novel “Fun.” Maugham portrays a literary crook in the book called Kiel who is ambitious and extremely adept at running his own business and writing novels in a civic style and taking secular fame, Reporter eating, the literature as a fame dinner. " Walpole looked cold cold sweat - Maugham clearly satirical use of this Kiel him. Walpole did not sleep overnight, early in the morning