Always interested in new ideas and conscious of his responsibilities as a black intellectual, Richard Wright must nevertheless be considered, when one delves into his fiction, primarily as a storyteller for whom a good narrative is valid for what it relates as much as for what it signifies. One constantly finds traces in him of the poor black child who owes his spiritual survival in racist Mississippi and, in part, his vocation as a writer to detective stories, popular fiction and dime novels. Indeed, he was always drawn towards stories in which truth is stranger than fiction; and after bringing unlikely events into his novels, he took a sly pleasure in disclosing the authenticity of episodes which his bewildered readers had taken for wild fabrications. We can easily imagine his delight when he came across, in the August 1941 issue of True Detective, "The Crime Hollywood Couldn't Believe," written by Hal Fletcher from the account given by Lt. C. W. Gains of the Los Angeles Police. One night in November 1931, the sub-manager of the local branch of the Owl Drug Company had deposited eleven thousand dollars in the safe of his store; and, on opening the intact safe the follow? ing morning, the director had not found a trace of the money in it. As the two men were above all suspicion, and there was no sign of burglary, the mystery remained unsolved. Two weeks later, the safe of a clothing store ?to which only the owner possessed the key?was emptied in the same way. Then there was an epidemic of thefts; linen, jewelry, typewriters, food, blankets, books, etc., disappeared by magic always in the same neighborhood. In the spring of the following year, the field of these mysterious thefts was transferred a few streets. Incredibly enough, the manager of the Baker Shoe Company, who had left two thousand dollars and twenty-six cents in his safe one fine night, found the two thousand

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理查德·赖特：生活在地下的人

总是对新思想感兴趣并意识到他作为一名黑人知识分子的责任，然而，当人们深入研究他的小说时，必须考虑理查德赖特，主要是作为一个讲故事的人，一个好的叙事对它所涉及的内容和它的内容都是有效的。表示。人们不断地在他身上找到那个可怜的黑人孩子的踪迹，他在种族主义密西西比州的精神上幸存下来，部分原因是他作为侦探小说、通俗小说和一角钱小说的作家的使命。事实上，他总是被那些真实比虚构更离奇的故事所吸引。在他的小说中加入了一些不太可能发生的事件后，他偷偷地乐于揭露那些被他迷惑不解的读者认为是胡编乱造的情节的真实性。我们很容易想象他遇到他时的喜悦，在 1941 年 8 月发行的 True Detective 杂志“好莱坞无法相信的犯罪”中，由 Hal Fletcher 根据洛杉矶警察的 CW Gains 中尉提供的帐户撰写。1931 年 11 月的一个晚上，猫头鹰药物公司当地分公司的副经理在他店里的保险箱里存了 1.1 万美元；并且，打开完好无损的保险箱后会出现以下情况？早上起来，主任还没有在里面发现钱的痕迹。由于两人疑点重重，而且没有入室盗窃的迹象，所以谜团一直没有解开。两周后，一家服装店的保险箱——只有店主拥有钥匙——以同样的方式被清空。然后是盗窃的流行；亚麻布、珠宝、打字机、食物、毯子、书籍等等，总是在同一个街区因魔法而消失。次年春天，这些神秘盗窃案的领域被转移到了几条街上。令人难以置信的是，在一个晴朗的夜晚，贝克鞋业公司的经理在他的保险箱里留下了 2000 美元和 26 美分，却找到了