世界上最强调标新立异的文学,恐怕要算现代和当代的美国文学了。作家们都象害怕瘟疫一样地害怕雷同,一定要摆脱流行的俗套,追求独到的创造性;但是,世界上或许也没有哪一种文学象现代和当代的美国文学那样更喜欢找出文学现象的共同特征了。当某种比较相似的特征还正在形成时,很快就有人把它指了出来,取一个名字,使它成为共同的标志。文学要有个人的创造,又 The world’s most unconventional literature, I am afraid to count the modern and contemporary American literature. Writers are as afraid of the same as the plague of the same, must get rid of the popular stereotypes, the pursuit of unique creativity; However, perhaps no one in the world of literature like modern and contemporary American literature that more like to find the common literary phenomenon Features. When a more similar feature is still being formed, somebody soon put it out, take a name, make it a common sign. Literature must have individual creation, again