为当今还活着的作家(包括诗人)写传的传记家,可能发现自己在从事一项枯燥的事业,因为他的传主的生活并没有多少引人注目之处,贫乏得如同一份履历表,而这份履历表的最后一栏往往填着“大学文学教师”。他或许会羡慕那些为七十年代以前的作家写传的传记家同行,光是传主们奇特的生活方式及其大量的逸闻趣事,就能够填满好几百页的篇幅,而不是薄薄的一册《访谈录》。实际上,自六十年代末以来,关于“文学”本身(即作家的职业对象)是否还存在的问题,曾进行过激烈的讨论。这种讨论在八十 A biographer who writes and writes about today’s living writers, including poets, may find themselves engaged in a boring career because the life of his bereavement does not attract much attention and is poorly stocked with a resume , And the last column of this resume is often filled with “university literature teacher.” He may envy the biographers who wrote and wrote stories for writers of the pre-1970s, just as the fanciful lifestyles and the wealth of anecdotes that the preachers could fill hundreds of pages rather than thin An interview book. In fact, there have been heated discussions since the late 1960s on the existence of “literary” itself (that is, the occupations of writers). This discussion is at eighty