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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.
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.
泪点:Katherine后来去了一个女校教书,博士论文出了书,谨致W.S.。
评分看完这本书,写了短短一句感慨:好像怎样都过不好人生。斯通纳的一生真是太普通了,普通得可以穿越时代找到无数同类人。读到后40%,斯通纳的空虚与绝望唤起我心中很大的共鸣。太熟悉了。那种静静的看着虚空找不到生存的意义的绝望。 斯通纳勤恳,单纯,逆来顺受,都是他人生遗憾的原因。单纯的勤恳让他终生留在校园里却以副教授的职位结束了职业生涯,没有荣誉,没有建树。可能本来可以有的,他却在lomax的压迫中浪费了太多时间。 他的逆来顺受简直是致命的弱点,也提醒了我,真正想要的还是要放手一搏的,有时候不是为了得到什么具体的东西,而是为了生命本身的尊严。他的逆来顺受不仅糟践了自己的人生,更放弃了作为父亲的责任而间接毁了女儿的一生。他的逆来顺受也让Katherine轰轰烈烈的爱潦草收场。 人生,真不是那么容易。
评分"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."
评分Stoner's heroism is delicately intertwined with his bitter failures, it is a secret power that makes him invulnerable. After all, he has achieved everything he truly treasured throughout his life. Yes, that power is his ever-lasting desire and never-dying awe towards beauty, knowledge and love itself.
评分(Reminds me of Russell's) Knowledge & Love & (pity for) human suffering. Still think he should have done more for his daughter.
31岁这一年,我在读《斯通纳》。 而31岁的斯通纳,正做什么呢? 大约正带着那副圆眼镜,穿着不合身的灯芯绒外套 在清晨,穿过无人的小路,匆匆赶往大学的图书馆 “他游历过排排书架,置身于几千册图书中 呼吸着皮革、衣服、干燥的书页释放出的发霉的气息 就像闻着某种来自异国...
评分多年以前我听一个老奶奶讲她的人生故事。她说,在收到女儿车祸噩耗的那天,她把自己关在屋子里,没有哭,只是静静坐着。当门再次打开时,已是神色如常,前来吊唁的人什么安慰的话都说不出来,只能叹口气回去。 她解释在那间屋子里发生了什么,说:“我把我自己的一部...
评分多年以前我听一个老奶奶讲她的人生故事。她说,在收到女儿车祸噩耗的那天,她把自己关在屋子里,没有哭,只是静静坐着。当门再次打开时,已是神色如常,前来吊唁的人什么安慰的话都说不出来,只能叹口气回去。 她解释在那间屋子里发生了什么,说:“我把我自己的一部...
评分失落的经典被重新发现,从销量仅千本到几十万册的现象级畅销书,《斯通纳》在五十年后成为评论家津津乐道的一则传奇,名人纷纷撰文推荐,带着点悲壮,也有些解气,既遗憾彼时读者的眼光,又欣慰21世纪的读者终于读懂了约翰·威廉斯写在字里行间的心灵自白。 翻开美国文...
评分库布里克在谈论他的电影《巴里•林登》的原著小说时说,在这部“没有英雄的小说”里,巴里•林登是一个很真实的角色,他既不是传统意义上的英雄,也不是传统意义上的反角……在我看来,这段评语放在斯通纳身上也是贴切的。 斯通纳的一生是平淡无奇的,学业、工作和婚姻都...
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