具体描述
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.
作者简介
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.
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这本书真是激起了我众多的恶感乃至愤怒。但是也慢慢由此明白，我对很多“严肃文学”的恶感与此类似，我一直非常害怕读大段描写人类的怯懦、无力感或者是鸡贼的作品，每到这个时候就想逃走。比如《更多的人死于心碎》就让我非常困扰。我经常觉得好多事情并非完全不可抗力，与其...
评分这本书真是激起了我众多的恶感乃至愤怒。但是也慢慢由此明白，我对很多“严肃文学”的恶感与此类似，我一直非常害怕读大段描写人类的怯懦、无力感或者是鸡贼的作品，每到这个时候就想逃走。比如《更多的人死于心碎》就让我非常困扰。我经常觉得好多事情并非完全不可抗力，与其...
评分by 谷立立 哈罗德•布鲁姆在论及塞万提斯时，使用了“人生如戏”的断语。因为就算《堂吉诃德》为塞万提斯赚得无数好评，却依然不能解决作家的温饱。“他除了要养活自己和家庭外别无什么雄心大志，他的剧作家生涯则是个失败。他的才情不在写诗，而体现在《堂吉诃德》之中。”...
评分斯通纳是农家之子，性格木讷，甚至有点怯懦。本来父母给他安排的未来是到大学读完农业后回家打理农庄。但是，一门英语选修课彻底改变了他。在课堂上，他听到了莎士比亚隔着三百年对他的召唤。于是，他改变了专业，背弃了父母的规划，并在几年后成为了一名大学英语教师。 但是...
评分之前还在说着没有好时机读这本书，然后就忽然来了，是天冷了，戴着新买的耳机躺床上听，我的泪点总在那些关于过去的闪回的片段：噢，还记得那时候我们下课一起去喝酒吗。 1 Stoner被作者John Williams称作"an escape into reality"，是逃入不是逃离，很奇怪对不对？ 这本书在成...
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今年收到的第一份生日礼物
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。
评分我知道年龄不太对 但我读的时候一直脑补stoner是李思涯lomax是甘阳 最后晚宴上stoner没给lomax一巴掌让我很失望
评分无法代入的人生，却是完全可代入的情感。不知不觉就过了一辈子，不只是最终，而是始终孑然一身。感慨家庭对一个人的影响，莫名其妙就引导了人的一生，这一点不是从Stoner身上，而是从他篇幅不多的女儿身上看到的。那一刻，觉得可怕。虽然是完全不同的境遇，也没有起伏大悲的情节，还是会在最后看到流泪。
评分what did you expect?
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