Two lives" by janet malcolm is a curious book. It's not a biography or literary criticism but a document of intellectual obsession with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas—and not just Malcolm's obsession but that of a small club of scholars who continue to parse the writings and doings of one of modernism's best-knowncouples. Stein, a self-proclaimed literary genius, is a writer no one reads anymore—but Malcolm is respectful, even as she describes her own slogs through the thicket of words. A longtime writer for The New Yorker (where chunks of this book first appeared), Malcolm has made a career of questioning the motives and ethics of reporters and biographers (see her book "The Journalist and the Murderer" and her study of Sylvia Plath). In "Two Lives," she again becomes a character in her own nonfiction, showing us her labors as researcher and interpreter, scrupulously combing the women's work, papers and other scholarship for insight into their lives and their identities.
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机译：珍妮特·马尔科姆（Janet malcolm）的《两个人的生活》是一本有趣的书。它不是传记或文学批评，而是关于格特鲁德·斯坦（Gertrude Stein）和爱丽丝·托克拉斯（Alice B. Toklas）的知识痴迷的文件，不仅是马尔科姆（Malcolm）的痴迷，而且是一小撮仍在继续研究的学者的痴迷。斯坦因是一位自称为文学天才的作家，如今已不再有人读书了，但马尔科姆是一位受人尊敬的人，尽管她通过言词的密密麻麻描述了自己的口号，但他还是一位受人尊敬的作家。对于《纽约客》（本书的大部分内容首次出现在该书中），马尔科姆（Malcolm）进行了质疑记者和传记作者的动机和道德操守的职业（请参见她的《新闻工作者和谋杀者》一书以及她对西尔维亚·普拉斯的研究）。 “两人生”，她再次成为自己的非小说人物，向我们展示了她作为研究人员和口译员的工作，认真地结合了妇女的工作，论文和其他奖学金，以深入了解她们的生活和身份。
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