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.
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.
聽說,壞女孩走四方,好女孩,上天堂。所以《斯通納》一口氣看完後,心裏會忍不住為它的銷路擔心。都懂的,今天能和正經文學爭“一口氣看完”的,是《琅琊榜》是《冰與火之歌》,和朋友圈那樣讓人欲仙欲死的社交網絡。我安慰自己,《斯通納》是足夠動人的小說,而不是足夠“高...
評分多年以前我聽一個老奶奶講她的人生故事。她說,在收到女兒車禍噩耗的那天,她把自己關在屋子裏,沒有哭,隻是靜靜坐著。當門再次打開時,已是神色如常,前來吊唁的人什麼安慰的話都說不齣來,隻能嘆口氣迴去。 她解釋在那間屋子裏發生瞭什麼,說:“我把我自己的一部...
評分人類至今其實沒什麼進步。尤其情感方麵,對生死愛恨的感覺,對荒誕命運的感覺,嫉妒、貪婪、榮譽感和挫敗感,幾韆年未變。文學的變遷隻是在這些情感中陸續突齣其一二。比如浪漫的、騎士的、壯麗的、頹廢的、放蕩的、失意的和詩意的等等。《斯通納》在沉寂五十年之後風行世界,...
評分失落的經典被重新發現,從銷量僅韆本到幾十萬冊的現象級暢銷書,《斯通納》在五十年後成為評論傢津津樂道的一則傳奇,名人紛紛撰文推薦,帶著點悲壯,也有些解氣,既遺憾彼時讀者的眼光,又欣慰21世紀的讀者終於讀懂瞭約翰·威廉斯寫在字裏行間的心靈自白。 翻開美國文...
評分文/硃利安•巴恩斯 Julian Barnes 譯/楊嚮榮 1963年6月13日,美國小說傢約翰•威廉斯(John Williams)從他供職的丹佛大學緻信自己的經紀人瑪利亞•羅德爾(Marie Rodell),當時他任該大學的英文教授。羅德爾剛讀完他的第三部長篇小說《斯通納》(Stoner),雖然明確...
"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."
评分今年收到的第一份生日禮物
评分隔壁老王的故事
评分讀瞭一半被我落在飛機上瞭。。其實整個故事就是摩羯座的一生。。
评分本以為是鳳凰男的中年危機之作,沒想到如此純情。
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