湯姆·麥卡錫
實驗文學的先鋒
The novel is a machine for generating meaning.
小說是生成意義的機器。
Language is not a tool for describing reality, but a reality in itself.
語言不是描述現(xiàn)實的工具，而是現(xiàn)實本身。
The task of the writer is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.
作家的任務是使熟悉的事物變得陌生，使陌生的事物變得熟悉。
We are all characters in a story we did not write.
我們都是自己未寫的故事中的角色。
The real is always mediated through the symbolic.
真實總是通過象征來中介。
To write is to confront the chaos of existence and impose some order upon it.
寫作就是面對存在的混亂并強加某種秩序。
The past is not dead, it is not even past.
過去并未死去，它甚至還未過去。
We are all trapped in the web of language, but it is also our only means of escape.
我們都困在語言的網(wǎng)中，但它也是我們唯一的逃脫手段。
Every act of communication is a kind of performance.
The novel is not just a mirror to the world, but a hammer with which to shape it.
小說不僅是世界的鏡子，更是塑造世界的錘子。