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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.
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.
本以为是凤凰男的中年危机之作,没想到如此纯情。
评分我想,好的小說是每位讀者都能從主人公身上找到自己的影子。《斯通納》就是這樣的小說,主人公斯通納就是那位像鏡子一般幫助讀者照見自我的人。他是一個普通得不能再普通的男人,沒有俗世意義上的功成名就,卻終其一生都不曾放棄對理想的追求和對信念的堅守。有時候,平凡與偉大之間,並無深淵巨壑。
评分(Reminds me of Russell's) Knowledge & Love & (pity for) human suffering. Still think he should have done more for his daughter.
评分"You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do."
评分无法代入的人生,却是完全可代入的情感。不知不觉就过了一辈子,不只是最终,而是始终孑然一身。感慨家庭对一个人的影响,莫名其妙就引导了人的一生,这一点不是从Stoner身上,而是从他篇幅不多的女儿身上看到的。那一刻,觉得可怕。虽然是完全不同的境遇,也没有起伏大悲的情节,还是会在最后看到流泪。
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