具體描述
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.
著者簡介
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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用戶評價
On top of the world, he is alone。曆史小說的典範，Williams用日記體形式大概是更容易深入人物內心
评分好書好書好書╰(*°▽°*)╯細節超贊，需要再看一遍縷縷
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great style, deeply affecting (in an austere sort of way, true to its period), can't be praised more
评分great style, deeply affecting (in an austere sort of way, true to its period), can't be praised more
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