John Williams (1922-1994) was born and raised in northeast Texas. Despite a talent for writing and acting, Williams flunked out of a local junior college after his first year. He reluctantly joined the war effort, enlisting in the Army Air Corps, and managing to write a draft of his first novel while there. Once home, Williams found a small publisher for the novel and enrolled at the University of Denver, where he was eventually to receive both his B.A. and M.A., and where he was to return as an instructor in 1954. Williams remained on the staff of the creative writing program at the University of Denver until his retirement in 1985. During these years, he was an active guest lecturer and writer, publishing two volumes of poetry and three novels, Butcher’s Crossing, Stoner, and the National Book Award–winning Augustus. In addition to Butcher’s Crossing, NYRB Classics also publishes Stoner.
Michelle Latiolais is a member of the Programs in Writing at the University of California at Irvine where she is associate professor of English. She is the author of the novel Even Now.
发表于2024-11-28
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“有谁的身世听起来比你更可怜?有谁在凶恶的灾难中遭遇着人生的变迁,比你更可怜?” ——古希腊悲剧《俄狄浦斯王》 从《斯通纳》到《屠夫十字镇》,读者的视野由学院生活延伸到西部旷野,你会发现作家约翰•威廉斯总有意无意地踩在小说分类的边缘,轻率的读者很容...
评分终于在国庆期间读完了《屠夫十字镇》。 跟上一本看作者另一部小说《斯通纳》一样简单的剧情。“寻找自我”的主人公安德鲁斯从哈佛辍学,想远离父辈和社会的枷锁来到西部兜一下风。他来到屠夫镇,遇到了想着征服自然的米勒和相信上帝的查理,带上现实派的是施内德,开始他们屠...
评分如果把《屠夫十字镇》当西部小说看,但里面没有英雄,个人主义的光辉在几个人物身上显得孱弱,对这一类型构成了温和的反讽。年轻人安德鲁斯来到屠夫十字镇,出资与人外出捕猎而因大雪受困山谷,熬过一整个冬天后,回来后发现集镇突然衰败。 将近一年的时光里,超验主义引导下回...
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In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, and#64257;red up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. "Butcher's Crossing "is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher's Crossing to and#64257;nd a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
我竟然还蛮喜欢这本的!
评分a patient echoing to the impressive quotation by Melville“Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance,and judges like a god all men that come to her…But who froze to death my teamster on the prairie?And who made an idiot of Peter the Willy Boy?"
评分很惊人的作家,这本比不上stoner,不过不错
评分Stoner給的觸動太大 所以這本只能感到泛泛 對西部本就沒大興趣 唯一是黑暗中小鎮上的一個prostitude在黑暗中牽Andrew的手穿過無光的通道那一幕 看了幾遍
评分a patient echoing to the impressive quotation by Melville“Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance,and judges like a god all men that come to her…But who froze to death my teamster on the prairie?And who made an idiot of Peter the Willy Boy?"
Butcher's Crossing 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书