Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
And the pleasure of fiction is narrative discovery, as it was easy to say about television serials and detective stories, but not, in those days, about serious novels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern
"Postmodernist fiction is defined by its temporal disorder, its disregard of linear narrative, its mingling of fictional forms and its experiments with language." - Barry Lewis, Kazuo Ishiguro
<<Postmodern小説>>については、この記事が凄く参考になった:
http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/post/uk/byatt/jlpomo3.html
A. S. Byatt's Possession-- Postmodern or Post-Postmodern?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_B._Toklas
Acting as Stein's confidante, lover, cook, secretary, muse, editor, critic, and general organizer, Toklas remained a background figure, chiefly living in the shadow of Stein, until Stein published her memoirs in 1933 under the teasing title The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
現代の普通の米語なら、
"She thickens men's blood with her coldness."
"Her coldness can coagulate a man's blood."
文庫本を立ち読みしたら、所々に訳注が付いていた。(親切ですね。)
この表現が Coleridge から来てると訳注がありますか?
Coleridge, in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
"Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold,
Her skin was as white as leprosy,
The nightmare Life-In-Death was she
Who thicks men's blood with cold."