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.
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.
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...
评分两年前,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...
评分奥古斯都,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...
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.
评分帝王外表下有着平实而纯朴的灵魂。
评分2017.26.B.
评分William的书真的太好看了,文笔好到引人入胜。太空虚了
评分great style, deeply affecting (in an austere sort of way, true to its period), can't be praised more
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