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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听说,坏女孩走四方,好女孩,上天堂。所以《斯通纳》一口气看完后,心里会忍不住为它的销路担心。都懂的,今天能和正经文学争“一口气看完”的,是《琅琊榜》是《冰与火之歌》,和朋友圈那样让人欲仙欲死的社交网络。我安慰自己,《斯通纳》是足够动人的小说,而不是足够“高...
评分之前还在说着没有好时机读这本书,然后就忽然来了,是天冷了,戴着新买的耳机躺床上听,我的泪点总在那些关于过去的闪回的片段:噢,还记得那时候我们下课一起去喝酒吗。 1 Stoner被作者John Williams称作"an escape into reality",是逃入不是逃离,很奇怪对不对? 这本书在成...
评分(原载《财新周刊》,有改动) 约翰·杜尔在为IBM工作了36年后,厌倦了为赚钱奔波,决定退休,和妻子在纽约上东区开了家小书店。上东区寸土寸金,一年光地租就要六位数,普通书籍销售自然很难维持营生。于是杜尔找了些不常见的旧版书来销售,其中有一本绝版书杜尔很喜欢,每次...
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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.
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。
评分泪点:Katherine后来去了一个女校教书,博士论文出了书,谨致W.S.。
评分无法代入的人生,却是完全可代入的情感。不知不觉就过了一辈子,不只是最终,而是始终孑然一身。感慨家庭对一个人的影响,莫名其妙就引导了人的一生,这一点不是从Stoner身上,而是从他篇幅不多的女儿身上看到的。那一刻,觉得可怕。虽然是完全不同的境遇,也没有起伏大悲的情节,还是会在最后看到流泪。
评分"You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do."
评分(Reminds me of Russell's) Knowledge & Love & (pity for) human suffering. Still think he should have done more for his daughter.
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