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发表于2024-10-02
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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, fired 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 paradisiacal 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 find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
約翰·威廉斯 John Williams (1922-1994),美國作傢、詩人、學者。輟過學,當過電颱播音,從過軍。退役後入大學就讀並獲博士學位,於1954-1985年間在母校丹佛大學教授大學英語及創意寫作。曾編選《文藝復興時期的英語詩歌》,也創作過兩本詩集。一生隻寫瞭 四部小說:《惟有黑夜》(1948)、《屠夫十字鎮》(1960)、《斯通納》(1965)、《奧古斯都》(1973,本書獲得當年美國國傢圖書奬)。對約翰·威廉斯的寫作,英國作傢硃利安·巴恩斯評論:“當我稱之為‘絕佳’,我的意思是它們(《屠夫十字鎮》《斯通納》)已經超越瞭各自類型範圍內的評價標準。”
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