许多小说家会选择轮廓分明、精确的人物,而他们的故事有时平淡无奇,并将他们置于重要的历史背景中,尽管如此,历史背景仍然是次要的。
(Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.)