|
Launching a career as a novelist seems like an impossible dream to many ― let alone doing so in a second or third language. But that’s exactly what Yiyun Li did after she graduated from college, moving from Beijing to the U.S. to study immunology at the University of Iowa; once there, she wound up honing her fiction-writing skills at the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop. 对许多人来说，要做一名职业小说家似乎就像一个不可能的梦想，更不用说用第二种语言或第三种语言来写小说了。但这正是李翊雲所从事的工作。大学毕业后，她从北京来到美国爱荷华大学学习免疫学。一到那儿，她就兴奋地来到享有盛誉的爱荷华作家工作室训练自己的小说写作技巧。 In a poignant essay for The New Yorker, Li, now the acclaimed author of several novels and short story collections written entirely in English, meditates on what leaving Chinese behind and embracing a new language has meant for her: 如今，李翊雲已创作了几部完全用英语写成的小说和短篇故事集，而她也成为了备受欢迎的作家。她曾在《纽约客》上刊载了一篇深刻的文章，在文中思考放弃汉语，使用一门新的语言对她来说意味着什么： | 
