圖書標籤: JohnWilliams 曆史 小說 約翰·威廉斯 古羅馬 English 美國文學 文學
发表于2025-05-29
Augustus pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025
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.
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.
great style, deeply affecting (in an austere sort of way, true to its period), can't be praised more
評分great style, deeply affecting (in an austere sort of way, true to its period), can't be praised more
評分2017.26.B.
評分精彩!
評分私以為不如stoner 而且我對古羅馬曆史太陌生瞭。。。
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...
評分一个个矛盾的人物穿插上演了这出罗马史诗,每一个人物塑造地都极其好,极其丰满生动。这不止是奥古斯都一个人的传奇,如果说奥古斯都是月,配角是星,这本书就构成了很美很美的一幕星河夜景,令人叹息,令人唏嘘。宿命的感觉,难逃又无处可寻的无奈感。 奥古斯都·凯撒,19岁组...
評分by 谷立立 约翰·威廉斯的一生贯穿着同一个关键词:拒绝。终其一生,他拒绝被定义、被归类,拒绝成为公众瞩目的文化明星,拒绝循规蹈矩地做传道授业的文学教授,只愿我行我素、我手写我心地诠释一位真正作家的本色。这倒不是说他一生庸庸碌碌、无所作为。事实上,他在文学上的...
評分约翰·威廉斯,1994年去世的美国作家,随着2012年左右那本《斯通纳》在全球范围内的再度畅销,而被很多读者熟知。到了2018年,他的中译本终于出到了第三本——讲述屋大维·凯撒的《奥古斯都》。 他对我而言是非常独特的一位作家,因为我总是一口气读完了他的小说,用废寝忘食来...
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...
Augustus pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025