过去3年来美国文坛上的事件虽不少,如海明威最后一部作品(《伊甸园》)的出版以及已畅销50年的小说《飘》将有续集问世,书尚未写好版权已被高价买去,但真正具有特色而且值得称为大事的,管见以为只有下列三件:第一件是1988年普利策小说奖引起的风波。这一事件显示了文学奖本身的缺点。任何颁给当代人士的文学奖多少免不了主观的色彩和人为的因素,使它不一定准确。得奖的作品虽可一时畅销或被编入诗文选集中,如 Although there have been quite a lot of events in the American literary arena in the past three years, such as the publication of the last work by Hemingway (“Garden of Eden”) and the publication “Gone with the Wind”, which has been selling well for 50 years, there will be a sequel to the book. , But truly distinctive and worthy of a big deal, we can see only three things: the first one was the storm caused by the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. This incident shows the shortcomings of the literary prize itself. The literary prize awarded to contemporary people can not avoid the subjective and artificial factors, making it not necessarily accurate. Although the winning entries may be popular or have been compiled into poetry anthology, such as