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.
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評分這本書真是激起瞭我眾多的惡感乃至憤怒。但是也慢慢由此明白,我對很多“嚴肅文學”的惡感與此類似,我一直非常害怕讀大段描寫人類的怯懦、無力感或者是雞賊的作品,每到這個時候就想逃走。比如《更多的人死於心碎》就讓我非常睏擾。我經常覺得好多事情並非完全不可抗力,與其...
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"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."
評分近來大熱的一本舊書 確實帶著過去年代的剋製和優美。一生不過某些片斷而已 然後就過去瞭。
評分淚點:Katherine後來去瞭一個女校教書,博士論文齣瞭書,謹緻W.S.。
評分看完這本書,寫瞭短短一句感慨:好像怎樣都過不好人生。斯通納的一生真是太普通瞭,普通得可以穿越時代找到無數同類人。讀到後40%,斯通納的空虛與絕望喚起我心中很大的共鳴。太熟悉瞭。那種靜靜的看著虛空找不到生存的意義的絕望。 斯通納勤懇,單純,逆來順受,都是他人生遺憾的原因。單純的勤懇讓他終生留在校園裏卻以副教授的職位結束瞭職業生涯,沒有榮譽,沒有建樹。可能本來可以有的,他卻在lomax的壓迫中浪費瞭太多時間。 他的逆來順受簡直是緻命的弱點,也提醒瞭我,真正想要的還是要放手一搏的,有時候不是為瞭得到什麼具體的東西,而是為瞭生命本身的尊嚴。他的逆來順受不僅糟踐瞭自己的人生,更放棄瞭作為父親的責任而間接毀瞭女兒的一生。他的逆來順受也讓Katherine轟轟烈烈的愛潦草收場。 人生,真不是那麼容易。
評分(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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