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.
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这本书真是激起了我众多的恶感乃至愤怒。但是也慢慢由此明白,我对很多“严肃文学”的恶感与此类似,我一直非常害怕读大段描写人类的怯懦、无力感或者是鸡贼的作品,每到这个时候就想逃走。比如《更多的人死于心碎》就让我非常困扰。我经常觉得好多事情并非完全不可抗力,与其...
评分人类至今其实没什么进步。尤其情感方面,对生死爱恨的感觉,对荒诞命运的感觉,嫉妒、贪婪、荣誉感和挫败感,几千年未变。文学的变迁只是在这些情感中陆续突出其一二。比如浪漫的、骑士的、壮丽的、颓废的、放荡的、失意的和诗意的等等。《斯通纳》在沉寂五十年之后风行世界,...
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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.
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。
评分多年前读了中文译本,没什么感觉。这次读的是英文原著,很被震撼。这说明翻译确实是很难的。
评分读了一半被我落在飞机上了。。其实整个故事就是摩羯座的一生。。
评分今年收到的第一份生日礼物
评分Stoner's heroism is delicately intertwined with his bitter failures, it is a secret power that makes him invulnerable. After all, he has achieved everything he truly treasured throughout his life. Yes, that power is his ever-lasting desire and never-dying awe towards beauty, knowledge and love itself.
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