ABSTRACT Career construction theory offers substantial new insights about Mary McCarthy and her generation of U.S. literary authors. While some commentators have noted that McCarthy’s profession bears on the interpretation of her numerous self-representations, this concern has been understood primarily as an intensification of the inherent reflexivity of life writing. This essay goes further, following Dix (2018a) in constructing the object of literary interpretation in two new ways: as the career in addition to the work, and as the career as represented within the work. In keeping, this essay proposes that Mary McCarthy’s entire oeuvre—including her autobiographical novels—might be considered first as life writing, then as a written life. In addition, because her work explored the reading and writing experiences that stand at the boundary between fiction and autobiography, McCarthy’s oeuvre may be linked to a body of writing in English that has begun to be described as ‘autofiction’. As Worthington (2017) has argued, contemporary autofictions offer a response to the emergence of ‘post-truth’ as a demagogic dissemination of the insights of postmodernism. As autofiction becomes a more prominent dimension of the contemporary literary scene—and as ‘post-truth’ erodes norms around the world—Mary McCarthy’s work should be moving back into focus.

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不加掩饰的另一个自我：玛丽·麦卡锡的自传生涯

摘要 职业建构理论为玛丽·麦卡锡和她那一代的美国文学作家提供了大量的新见解。虽然一些评论家指出，麦卡锡的职业与她众多的自我表现的解释有关，但这种担忧主要被理解为对生活写作的内在反思的强化。本文更进一步，继 Dix (2018a) 以两种新方式构建文学解释的对象：作为作品之外的职业，以及作为作品中所代表的职业。为了保持一致，本文提出玛丽·麦卡锡的全部作品——包括她的自传小说——可能首先被视为生活写作，然后是书面生活。此外，因为她的作品探索了处于小说和自传之间边界的阅读和写作体验，麦卡锡的作品可能与已经开始被描述为“自传”的英语写作有关。正如沃辛顿（Worthington，2017 年）所指出的，当代自传小说对“后真相”的出现做出了回应，它是对后现代主义见解的蛊惑人心的传播。随着自述小说成为当代文学界的一个更突出的维度——随着“后真相”侵蚀世界各地的规范——玛丽·麦卡锡的作品应该重新成为焦点。当代自传小说对作为后现代主义见解的蛊惑人心的传播的“后真相”的出现做出了回应。随着自述小说成为当代文学界的一个更突出的维度——随着“后真相”侵蚀世界各地的规范——玛丽·麦卡锡的作品应该重新成为焦点。当代自传小说对作为后现代主义见解的蛊惑人心的传播的“后真相”的出现做出了回应。随着自述小说成为当代文学界的一个更突出的维度——随着“后真相”侵蚀世界各地的规范——玛丽·麦卡锡的作品应该重新成为焦点。