作家菲利普·羅斯宣佈封筆

Seminal American author Philip Roth, whose novels explored modern Jewish-American life, has told a French magazine that he will write no more books because he has lost his passion for it.

近日，以小說形式關注現代猶太裔美國人生活的美國著名作家菲利普·羅斯在某家法國雜誌中透露，由於靈感枯竭，他今後將不再進行寫作了。

The author of such novels as American Pastoral, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and Portnoy's Complaint slipped his retirement announcement into an interview last month with French magazine Les Inrocks.

菲利普·羅斯在上月接受法國雜誌《Les Inrocks》的採訪時宣佈他封筆的消息。他的代表作有《波特諾的怨訴》，小說《美國牧歌》曾獲普利策小說獎。

"To tell you the truth, I'm done," Roth was quoted as telling Les Inrocks. "Nemesis will be my last book," he said of his 2010 short novel set against a fictional polio epidemic in Newark, New Jersey, in 1944.

“和你說實話吧，我的寫作靈感已經枯竭了。”羅斯對《Les Inrocks》雜誌說“《涅墨西斯》（Nemesis）將是我創作的最後一本書。”這部2010年出版的短篇小說是以虛構的1944年新澤西紐瓦克市脊髓灰質炎爆發爲背景所寫的。

Roth, 79, one of the world's most revered novelists and a frequent contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature, said he had not written for three years.

79歲的羅斯稱他已經有三年沒有寫作了，他是世界上最受人尊敬的小說家，曾多次提名諾貝爾文學獎。

The novella Goodbye, Columbus catapulted Roth onto the American literary scene in 1959 with its satirical depiction of class and religion in American life. Published along with five other short stories, it won the National Book Award in 1960. He won it again in 1995 for Sabbath's Theater.

菲利普·羅斯1959年發表的中篇小說《再見，哥倫布》以諷刺的手法描寫了美國社會中的階級和宗教問題，書中還另外收錄了五個短篇小說。小說一經發表，羅斯便迅速走紅美國文壇。憑藉此書，羅斯於1960年美國國家圖書獎。1995年，憑藉《Sabbath's Theater》一書再次獲得該獎項。