英国当代著名作家玛格丽特·德拉布尔生活在后现代主义实验小说盛行的二十世纪下半叶,然而她却是一位英国文学现实主义传统虔诚的追随者。她的早期小说创作观在她的第三部小说《磨砺》中得到了充分的体现。 Margaret Drabble, a famous contemporary British writer, lived in the second half of the twentieth century in the postmodernist experimental novel. However, she was a devout follower of the traditional British literary realism. Her early novels’ conception of creation is fully reflected in her third novel, “Grinding”.