这部出色的文集选录了十一篇文章,论述一批在不同程空上可见“契合”现象的中西方作家。论及的西方作家大多数是英美文人,但篇幅较长的《诗人兼翻译家》一文也提到了法国、西班牙和俄国作家。这十一篇论文中有八篇是在近期写成的(1980—1984),余下三篇则写于四十年代,从而使此书在时间上有一种纵深感,颇为耐人寻 This excellent collection of essays eleven eleven articles discussing a group of Chinese and Western writers who see “fit” on different paths. The majority of Western writers referred to were English and American writers, but the longer article, Poets and Translators, also referred to French, Spanish and Russian writers. Eight of the eleven papers were written in the near future (1980-1984) and the remaining three were written in the forties, leaving the book with a sense of depth in time that is rather resistant