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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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- 曆史
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- 約翰·威廉斯
- 古羅馬
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- 美國文學
- 文學
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.
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我的命運是改變世界，但時間會毀掉羅馬 趙鬆 距今2062年前，即公元前44年的3月15日，羅馬共和國發生瞭一件影響深遠的大事件——終身獨裁官尤利烏斯·凱撒在元老院遇刺身亡。隨後齣現的，卻並非刺殺凱撒的那些貴族共和派所宣稱的“自由”，而是羅馬陷入瞭無政府狀態的可怕動亂。...
評分一個個矛盾的人物穿插上演瞭這齣羅馬史詩，每一個人物塑造地都極其好，極其豐滿生動。這不止是奧古斯都一個人的傳奇，如果說奧古斯都是月，配角是星，這本書就構成瞭很美很美的一幕星河夜景，令人嘆息，令人唏噓。宿命的感覺，難逃又無處可尋的無奈感。 奧古斯都·凱撒，19歲組...
評分一個個矛盾的人物穿插上演瞭這齣羅馬史詩，每一個人物塑造地都極其好，極其豐滿生動。這不止是奧古斯都一個人的傳奇，如果說奧古斯都是月，配角是星，這本書就構成瞭很美很美的一幕星河夜景，令人嘆息，令人唏噓。宿命的感覺，難逃又無處可尋的無奈感。 奧古斯都·凱撒，19歲組...
評分一個個矛盾的人物穿插上演瞭這齣羅馬史詩，每一個人物塑造地都極其好，極其豐滿生動。這不止是奧古斯都一個人的傳奇，如果說奧古斯都是月，配角是星，這本書就構成瞭很美很美的一幕星河夜景，令人嘆息，令人唏噓。宿命的感覺，難逃又無處可尋的無奈感。 奧古斯都·凱撒，19歲組...
評分by 榖立立 約翰·威廉斯的一生貫穿著同一個關鍵詞：拒絕。終其一生，他拒絕被定義、被歸類，拒絕成為公眾矚目的文化明星，拒絕循規蹈矩地做傳道授業的文學教授，隻願我行我素、我手寫我心地詮釋一位真正作傢的本色。這倒不是說他一生庸庸碌碌、無所作為。事實上，他在文學上的...
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William的書真的太好看瞭，文筆好到引人入勝。太空虛瞭
评分great style, deeply affecting (in an austere sort of way, true to its period), can't be praised more
评分TofF indeed 譯者說“第三捲陡高”我同感。前兩捲相對平直，權謀/混亂傢庭關係都屬於曆史本身的跌宕勝過瞭作傢的筆頭；捲三纔馴服這烈馬，真正由自己書寫起伏。人生從奧德賽到悲劇再到喜劇，是比“不服神命，誓死犯天”更深刻的搏擊，選擇命運也被命運選擇；不是R背叛瞭我，是我走上這條路而背叛瞭他；我如亞曆山大般渺小；領略不瞭的老婦智慧。最牛逼的還是野蠻人與羅馬比喻，文明摧枯拉朽之時，也反過來給野蠻打上烙印；生命被時間吞噬，但也改造雕磨和馴化瞭時間。唯情欲之愛（尤利婭日記）和文字之愛（詩權）最為純粹無私，留存在一切飛塵之中。他最終夢到瞭五十年前和自己眼睛同色的祭牛，於自己盡頭處諒解瞭所有人的盡頭。S講羅馬人本質，H講E故事新解兩段很受啓發。怪不得寫作語氣奇怪，原來是模仿拉丁語法。想到秦始皇
评分好像約翰.威廉斯特彆擅長在最後寫這種經提純的靈魂。從《屠夫十字鎮》到《斯通納》，再到這本《奧古斯都》，他的視角看似由蕓蕓眾生轉嚮偉大領袖，但實則一直以來，威廉斯寫下的是人類的靈魂。不論偉大或卑微，也不應由偉大或卑微進行劃分。他傳統、內斂、自省，將對情感的錶達控製在嚴肅的維度裏。他筆下的羅馬皇帝於一生落幕的遠航中，提筆寫下緻友人的書信，在其中剖析瞭自己作為各種角色走過的歲月，年少的友情與誌嚮，改變世界的命運與決心，文明與野蠻，人性的卑劣與其中一瞬之光，超越一切、純粹的愛……最後他終於釋然，羅馬遲早將被徵服，他從不因自己的偉業而感驕傲，卻領悟瞭足夠使自己感到慰藉的傳承。於是他的靈魂終不至於被一切成空的絕望所壓倒，在那片汪洋中得以沐浴著晨光，迴顧少年時代的舊夢，駛嚮終點。
评分今年晚春和初鼕把這本書聽瞭兩遍，細膩與壯闊比起尤瑟納爾的《哈德良迴憶錄》均有過之而無不及，念的也非常好。
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