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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.
约翰·威廉斯(John Edward Williams, 1922—1994),美国作家,诗人,学者。辍过学,当过电台播音,从过军。退役后入大学就读并获博士学位。
于1945年-1985年间在母校丹佛大学任教,教授大学英语及创意写作。曾编辑出版学术文集《文艺复兴时期的英语诗歌》,也创作过两本诗集。
一生只写了四部小说:《惟有黑夜》(1948)、《屠夫十字镇》(1960)、《斯通纳》(1965)、《奥古斯都》(1973,本书当年获得美国国家图书奖)。
对约翰·威廉斯的写作,英国作家朱利安·巴恩斯评论:“当我称之为‘绝佳’,我的意思是它们(《屠夫十字镇》《斯通纳》)已经超越了各自类型范围内的评价标准。”
之前抱怨这书的语言太平庸连出轨戏都干瘪无趣,今晚读完最后几十页竟然哭了。多数人的一生都是这般乏善可陈,Stoner已算幸运的。当有一天我们也在生命尽头回顾自己平淡的一生,想起一些对个人而言尚算可爱的瞬间,会不会也像Stoner那样不停自问“what do you expect?"
评分Stoner's plain life manifests the truth of the way of life, at least a life that most of us share: we dream and have expectations, then we constantly make mistakes, and we reconcile with these misfortunes and disappointments. This is the most glorious but miserable fact--life simply goes on. Profundity lies in the mundane and the mediocre.
评分Stoner's plain life manifests the truth of the way of life, at least a life that most of us share: we dream and have expectations, then we constantly make mistakes, and we reconcile with these misfortunes and disappointments. This is the most glorious but miserable fact--life simply goes on. Profundity lies in the mundane and the mediocre.
评分“The prose was graceful, and its passion was masked by a coolness and clarity of intelligence.” Stoner对Katherine书的评价同样可以用来评价这本书本身。
评分英文有声书。文笔真是不错,读的也好。看大家都在说Stoner的一生到底是不是失败的,我觉得从普通的价值观来讲,肯定是;但是如果这是一个人自己的选择,而不是被迫接受,那就不算是失败。一个人过了自己想过的一生,不是挺好。
失落的经典被重新发现,从销量仅千本到几十万册的现象级畅销书,《斯通纳》在五十年后成为评论家津津乐道的一则传奇,名人纷纷撰文推荐,带着点悲壮,也有些解气,既遗憾彼时读者的眼光,又欣慰21世纪的读者终于读懂了约翰·威廉斯写在字里行间的心灵自白。 翻开美国文...
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(原载《财新周刊》,有改动) 约翰·杜尔在为IBM工作了36年后,厌倦了为赚钱奔波,决定退休,和妻子在纽约上东区开了家小书店。上东区寸土寸金,一年光地租就要六位数,普通书籍销售自然很难维持营生。于是杜尔找了些不常见的旧版书来销售,其中有一本绝版书杜尔很喜欢,每次...
评分上大学的时候,我们都会遇到一种典型的大学老师:明明在教一门必修又基础的课却把内容、作业和考试的难度上升到让所有人都痛不欲生的地步;似乎对某些学问有着极为深入的研究和领悟,可上他们的课却很难从中感到被震慑的魅力;绝对不是系里的“红人”,搜索他们的名字,除了担...
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...
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