世人常说，抓住今天。威廉一直是这么做的。
20年前，他果断退学，去好莱坞实现明星梦；几年前，他决定离婚，试图做回自由的单身汉；几周前，他毅然辞职，投身陌生的股票世界。
今天，末流演员威廉，似乎永远也离不了婚，仍在为生计四处奔走。酒店催促缴租；父亲不再提供帮助；妻子寄来付费账单。他将所剩无几的积蓄全部交给股票市场，期望这一次能够真正抓住今天。
[加]索尔·贝娄（Saul Bellow）
1976年诺贝尔文学奖得主，曾获普利策奖、美国国家艺术勋章，三次斩获美国国家图书奖。他用文学思考重要的问题，意图“在现代思想的废墟下重新发现世界的神奇”。
《抓住今天》是贝娄的第四部小说作品，《纽约时报》称其为贝娄极感人的小说，揭示了“我们不被理解的真正痛苦”。
胡苏晓，美国蒙特克莱尔州立大学图书馆文献资源建设采购部主管兼副教授，代表译作有《抓住今天》、詹姆斯·鲍德温《去见那个男人》、韦恩·布斯《小说修辞学》（合译）等。
Seize the day, they say. That's what William has always done.
Twenty years ago, he quit school to pursue his dream of becoming a star in Hollywood. A few years ago, he decided to divorce and try to become a free bachelor. A few weeks ago, he resigned and plunged into the unfamiliar world of stocks.
Today, the last actor William, who seems never to be divorced, is still struggling to make a living. The hotel urges payment of rent; My father stopped offering help; Wife sends a bill. He put all of his remaining savings into the stock market, hoping that this time he could really seize the day.
[Plus] Saul Bellow
Winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, he has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, and three National Book Awards. He used literature to ponder important questions, intending to "rediscover the wonder of the world beneath the ruins of modern thought."
Seize the Day, Bellow's fourth novel, was described by The New York Times as one of Bellow's most moving novels, revealing "the real pain of not being understood."
Hu Suxiao is the director and associate professor of the Procurement Department of the Library of Montclair State University in the United States. His translations include Seize the Day, James Baldwin's Go To See the Man, Wayne Booth's Rhetoric of Fiction (co-translated).
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