Stoner

John Williams was born on August 29, 1922 in Clarksville, Texas. He served in the United States Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945 in China, Burma and India. The Swallow Press published his first novel, Nothing But the Night, in 1948, as well as his first book of poems, The Broken Landscape, in 1949. Macmillan published Williams' second novel, Butcher's Crossing, in 1960. After recieving his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Denver, and his Ph.D from the University of Missouri, Williams returned in 1954 to the University of Denver where he taught literature and the craft of writing for thirty years. In 1963 Williams received a fellowship to study at Oxford University where where he received a Rockefeller grant enabling him to travel and research in Italy for his last novel, Augustus, published in 1972. John Williams died in Arkansas on March 4, 1994.

出版者:Vintage Classics

作者:John Williams

页数:305

出版时间:2012-7-5

价格:GBP 8.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780099561545

图书标签:英文原版小说JohnWilliams美国文学美国外国文学fiction文学

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William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known.

And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.

John Williams's luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.

读后感

斯通纳是农家之子，性格木讷，甚至有点怯懦。本来父母给他安排的未来是到大学读完农业后回家打理农庄。但是，一门英语选修课彻底改变了他。在课堂上，他听到了莎士比亚隔着三百年对他的召唤。于是，他改变了专业，背弃了父母的规划，并在几年后成为了一名大学英语教师。 但是...  

文/朱利安•巴恩斯 Julian Barnes 译/杨向荣 1963年6月13日，美国小说家约翰•威廉斯（John Williams）从他供职的丹佛大学致信自己的经纪人玛利亚•罗德尔（Marie Rodell），当时他任该大学的英文教授。罗德尔刚读完他的第三部长篇小说《斯通纳》(Stoner)，虽然明确...  

用户评价

能把一个普通人的生活写得这么生动而且真实，不夸张不造作不离奇，但同时又能引人入胜，这非常难得。

泪点：Katherine后来去了一个女校教书，博士论文出了书，谨致W.S.。

年度心碎图书，从软弱到反抗几乎用尽一生，到最后也草草结束，很少有高潮，看似平淡无奇，但处处都让人心痛。

泪点：Katherine后来去了一个女校教书，博士论文出了书，谨致W.S.。

泪点：Katherine后来去了一个女校教书，博士论文出了书，谨致W.S.。