Stoner

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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.

出版者:Vintage Classics
作者:John Williams
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頁數:305
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出版時間:2012-7-5
價格:GBP 8.99
裝幀:Paperback
isbn號碼:9780099561545
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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.

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不會再有一本書有這麼俗的作者名字這麼平淡的故事但讀的時候讓人放不下來看完瞭以後難受瞭好幾天. 是不是因為我們太習慣瞭英雄傳奇高潮迭起反而會忘瞭大部分人的生活就隻是這樣追求自己想要的 然後失去得到 在大事件裏起起伏伏 活著沒啥死瞭也沒啥人知道. 但有多少人能像他一樣執著追求乃至到最後無欲無求...

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年度心碎圖書,從軟弱到反抗幾乎用盡一生,到最後也草草結束,很少有高潮,看似平淡無奇,但處處都讓人心痛。

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看完這本書,寫瞭短短一句感慨:好像怎樣都過不好人生。斯通納的一生真是太普通瞭,普通得可以穿越時代找到無數同類人。讀到後40%,斯通納的空虛與絕望喚起我心中很大的共鳴。太熟悉瞭。那種靜靜的看著虛空找不到生存的意義的絕望。 斯通納勤懇,單純,逆來順受,都是他人生遺憾的原因。單純的勤懇讓他終生留在校園裏卻以副教授的職位結束瞭職業生涯,沒有榮譽,沒有建樹。可能本來可以有的,他卻在lomax的壓迫中浪費瞭太多時間。 他的逆來順受簡直是緻命的弱點,也提醒瞭我,真正想要的還是要放手一搏的,有時候不是為瞭得到什麼具體的東西,而是為瞭生命本身的尊嚴。他的逆來順受不僅糟踐瞭自己的人生,更放棄瞭作為父親的責任而間接毀瞭女兒的一生。他的逆來順受也讓Katherine轟轟烈烈的愛潦草收場。 人生,真不是那麼容易。

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今年收到的第一份生日禮物

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無法代入的人生,卻是完全可代入的情感。不知不覺就過瞭一輩子,不隻是最終,而是始終孑然一身。感慨傢庭對一個人的影響,莫名其妙就引導瞭人的一生,這一點不是從Stoner身上,而是從他篇幅不多的女兒身上看到的。那一刻,覺得可怕。雖然是完全不同的境遇,也沒有起伏大悲的情節,還是會在最後看到流淚。

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