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 managing 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. Williams 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, publishing two volumes of poetry and three novels, Butcher’s Crossing, Stoner, and the National Book Award–winning Augustus. In addition to Butcher’s Crossing, NYRB Classics also publishes Stoner.
Michelle Latiolais is a member of the Programs in Writing at the University of California at Irvine where she is associate professor of English. She is the author of the novel Even Now.
In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, and#64257;red up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. "Butcher's Crossing "is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher's Crossing to and#64257;nd a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
美国作家约翰·爱德华·威廉斯(1922-1994)是文学出版界的一个奇特现象。其“学术小说”《斯托纳》(Stoner)近年因法国作家安娜·贾维尔达(Anna Gavalda) 将其翻译成法文,并极力推崇,在欧洲热卖。这部小说写于1965年,此番重出江湖时,出版商宣传其为“你尚未读过的最伟大的...
评分 评分约翰·威廉斯的小说产量很少,题材却遍及多样,中国读者最熟悉,也是他现在最著名的是几十年后被重新掘出,成为“新经典”的学院题材小说《斯通纳》,此外他还有历史小说《奥古斯都》和西部小说《屠夫十字镇》等作品。斯通纳本人是拒绝“西部小说”这个名号的,虽然印上这种标...
评分在谈论以品钦、德里罗为代表的当代作家作品时,文学评论家詹姆斯•伍德使用了“歇斯底里现实主义”的断语。他认为,现代派小说无论从结构还是篇幅都称得上是“巨无霸”。作家们雄心勃勃,一方面沿袭狄更斯以来严整的叙事体系,一方面穷尽后现代把戏颠覆前人,洋洋洒洒近千页...
评分确实精彩,发现了中文版中删减的段落,不知道是故意的还是忘记翻译了,,米勒在后形象落差真的太可怕了,但确实非常真实令人信服。
评分我竟然还蛮喜欢这本的!
评分确实精彩,发现了中文版中删减的段落,不知道是故意的还是忘记翻译了,,米勒在后形象落差真的太可怕了,但确实非常真实令人信服。
评分我竟然还蛮喜欢这本的!
评分a patient echoing to the impressive quotation by Melville“Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance,and judges like a god all men that come to her…But who froze to death my teamster on the prairie?And who made an idiot of Peter the Willy Boy?"
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