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 managed 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.
He 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, editing an anthology of English Renaissance poetry and publishing two volumes of his own poems, as well as three novels, Butcher’s Crossing, Stoner, and the National Book Award–winning Augustus (all published as NYRB Classics).
Daniel Mendelsohn was born in 1960 and studied classics at the University of Virginia and at Princeton, where he received his doctorate. His essays and reviews appear regularly in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review. His books include The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million; a memoir, The Elusive Embrace; and the collection Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture, published by New York Review Books. He teaches at Bard College. His essay in the September 25, 2014 issue will appear as the introduction to a new translation of The Bacchae by Robin Robertson, to be published in September by Ecco.
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奥古斯都,罗马帝国第一位元首,“罗马第一公民”,原名盖乌斯•屋大维•图里努斯,恺撒的甥外孙和养子。他的故事被各种方式不断演绎。约翰•威廉斯在小说《奥古斯都》中采用了别致的书信体形式,从奥古斯都同时代人和自己的角度,用不同碎片拼凑起一个大家眼中的奥古斯...
评分奥古斯都,罗马帝国第一位元首,“罗马第一公民”,原名盖乌斯•屋大维•图里努斯,恺撒的甥外孙和养子。他的故事被各种方式不断演绎。约翰•威廉斯在小说《奥古斯都》中采用了别致的书信体形式,从奥古斯都同时代人和自己的角度,用不同碎片拼凑起一个大家眼中的奥古斯...
评分奥古斯都,罗马帝国第一位元首,“罗马第一公民”,原名盖乌斯•屋大维•图里努斯,恺撒的甥外孙和养子。他的故事被各种方式不断演绎。约翰•威廉斯在小说《奥古斯都》中采用了别致的书信体形式,从奥古斯都同时代人和自己的角度,用不同碎片拼凑起一个大家眼中的奥古斯...
评分我承認,在閱讀本書之前,我並不知道約翰‧威廉斯這位作家,他一生的作品不多,都是我不感興趣的。而這部《奧古斯都》,則是偶然看到簡體版的譯者鄭遠濤先生的介紹時,方才知道有此優秀的作品存在。 《奧古斯都》正如其名,是一部講述那位知名的羅馬“第一公民”屋大維一生的...
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In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned to the epistolary novel, a genre that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in Butcher’s Crossing and the campus novel in Stoner. Augustus is the final triumph of a writer who has come to be recognized around the world as an American master.
帝王外表下有着平实而纯朴的灵魂。
评分great style, deeply affecting (in an austere sort of way, true to its period), can't be praised more
评分this ... this... this is just so good!!
评分帝王外表下有着平实而纯朴的灵魂。
评分TofF indeed 译者说“第三卷陡高”我同感。前两卷相对平直,权谋/混乱家庭关系都属于历史本身的跌宕胜过了作家的笔头;卷三才驯服这烈马,真正由自己书写起伏。人生从奥德赛到悲剧再到喜剧,是比“不服神命,誓死犯天”更深刻的搏击,选择命运也被命运选择;不是R背叛了我,是我走上这条路而背叛了他;我如亚历山大般渺小;领略不了的老妇智慧。最牛逼的还是野蛮人与罗马比喻,文明摧枯拉朽之时,也反过来给野蛮打上烙印;生命被时间吞噬,但也改造雕磨和驯化了时间。唯情欲之爱(尤利娅日记)和文字之爱(诗权)最为纯粹无私,留存在一切飞尘之中。他最终梦到了五十年前和自己眼睛同色的祭牛,于自己尽头处谅解了所有人的尽头。S讲罗马人本质,H讲E故事新解两段很受启发。怪不得写作语气奇怪,原来是模仿拉丁语法。想到秦始皇
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