Augustus

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.

出版者:NYRB Classics

作者:John Williams

页数:336

出版时间:2014-8-19

价格:USD 15.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781590178218

图书标签:JohnWilliams历史小说约翰·威廉斯古罗马English美国文学文学

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.

读后感

美国作家约翰·威廉斯1922年出生于德克萨斯州，两年的兵役期结束后，终其一生都在大学任教。他出版过四本小说（《唯有黑夜》《屠夫十字镇》《斯通纳》《奥古斯都》），留下一部未竟之作《理性的沉睡》。作为小说家，他的经历平稳而安全，研究的是小说，写作的是小说，最后以教...  

美国作家约翰·威廉斯1922年出生于德克萨斯州，两年的兵役期结束后，终其一生都在大学任教。他出版过四本小说（《唯有黑夜》《屠夫十字镇》《斯通纳》《奥古斯都》），留下一部未竟之作《理性的沉睡》。作为小说家，他的经历平稳而安全，研究的是小说，写作的是小说，最后以教...  

我们都希望自己读到的历史就是事实，但其实绝大多数（甚至可以说是全部）历史书都不可能是全部事实，历史就是由一系列无法还原的事实构成的，所以历史在我心里，就是一系列的故事，也因此，我不太喜欢有人批评一部“史书”是胡诌之类的，当然如果作者能说明哪些材料是引用，哪...  

用户评价

为Williams打call

私以为不如stoner 而且我对古罗马历史太陌生了。。。

精彩！

great style, deeply affecting (in an austere sort of way, true to its period), can't be praised more

私以为不如stoner 而且我对古罗马历史太陌生了。。。