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.
圖書目錄
讀後感
奥古斯都，罗马帝国第一位元首，“罗马第一公民”，原名盖乌斯•屋大维•图里努斯，恺撒的甥外孙和养子。他的故事被各种方式不断演绎。约翰•威廉斯在小说《奥古斯都》中采用了别致的书信体形式，从奥古斯都同时代人和自己的角度，用不同碎片拼凑起一个大家眼中的奥古斯...
評分我承認，在閱讀本書之前，我並不知道約翰‧威廉斯這位作家，他一生的作品不多，都是我不感興趣的。而這部《奧古斯都》，則是偶然看到簡體版的譯者鄭遠濤先生的介紹時，方才知道有此優秀的作品存在。 《奧古斯都》正如其名，是一部講述那位知名的羅馬“第一公民”屋大維一生的...
評分美国作家约翰·威廉斯1922年出生于德克萨斯州，两年的兵役期结束后，终其一生都在大学任教。他出版过四本小说（《唯有黑夜》《屠夫十字镇》《斯通纳》《奥古斯都》），留下一部未竟之作《理性的沉睡》。作为小说家，他的经历平稳而安全，研究的是小说，写作的是小说，最后以教...
評分两年前，我有幸拜读了作家的另一部作品：《斯通纳》，发自内心的喜欢，因此做过一篇极为斧凿，略有些做作的读后感。及到这本《奥古斯都》，从购买到阅读都没有任何犹豫，同样的喜欢甚至可以说是更加喜欢，所以抑制不住，同时又不胜惶恐的写下这篇读后感。 并没有刻意与《斯通纳...
評分他被尊为“奥古斯都”，他把二月抽出了一天；他是八月名称的由来；他是历史上伟大帝国的开创者；他被历史选中，也同样选择了历史，他就是盖乌斯·屋大维·奥古斯都，罗马帝国的开创者。周末资本市场停盘，闲来无事续接前篇读完了约翰·威廉斯的历史文学巨著《奥古斯都》，值得...
用戶評價
great style, deeply affecting (in an austere sort of way, true to its period), can't be praised more
评分帝王外錶下有著平實而純樸的靈魂。
评分2017.26.B.
评分書信，總是帶著風，韆裏飄搖。信封中，是靈魂碎片，有情意綿綿，有暗流洶湧，有劍拔弩張，有滄海桑田。John Williams不僅容納書信，還有公文，辭令，日記...透過精心安排，於虛實之間，構建齣奧古都斯一生之波瀾。此謂形式。再者，長篇小說之結構最見作傢的功力。第一部，徵服史，即成功史。第二部，私生活，即失敗史。前兩部，均為人言，由此一筆一畫雕刻奧古都斯之輪廓。第三部，是“本尊”之正聲，是靈魂奧義，亦是巨大彩蛋。John Williams的奧古都斯，一去莎士比亞劇作中之陰險狡詐，樹立正麵形象，由神至人，令讀者切膚共鳴。就如“命運”二字，“命”為注定，而“運”為偶然，命在前，運在後，命定與意外摩擦，不斷侵蝕，迴望中，方滄桑。生命，不論偉大或卑微，都不免通嚮極緻：麵對自我。而自我，即孤島，即牢籠。
评分Williams applied forms as memoir,diary and correspondence to contour the endeavor and merit of Augustus,small pity that the effort is closer to monologue.
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