1. We no longer have the presumptuousness to believe, as they did in Sartre's day, that a novel can change the world, " Le Clézio has said. "Today, writers can only record their political impotence … 文学再也不能象萨特时期那样,宣称可以改变世界,今天,文学是表达对政治的无奈,现代文学是绝望的文学。
英英解释
n.
1. audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to