在我们的头脑里,关于爱尔兰文学的近况,实在少得可怜。一方面是由于数十年的锁国与外界濒于断绝联系,一方面也是由于我们研究外国文学的范围,过于一窝风地集中在某几个国家所致,出了偏颇。我们对于爱尔兰文学的知识,似乎还限于王尔德、萧伯纳、乔伊斯和贝克特、奥康诺等人,至于当前的情况,则所知甚少。 In our minds, the current situation about Irish literature is really pitiful. On the one hand, it is due to the fact that for decades the Lockean nation was severed from its ties with the outside world. On the one hand, it is also biased due to the fact that our study of the scope of foreign literature is too concentrated in a few countries. Our knowledge of Irish literature seems to be limited to Wilde, Shaw, Joyce, Beckett, O’Connor and others, and little is known about the current situation.