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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.
约翰·威廉斯 John 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1954-1985年间在母校丹佛大学教授大学英语及创意写作。曾编选《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,本书获得当年美国国家图书奖)。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。”
(刊于《中国青年》2016年18期) 因小说《斯通纳》为人熟知的约翰·威廉斯,如他笔下的斯通纳一样,是个风度翩翩略带忧郁的学院派作家。埋首卷帙,执着于品味人生,道阻且长的梦想囿于际遇静待解语者。可是谁能想到,威廉斯的第二部小说《屠夫十字镇》(《斯通纳》是第三部)...
评分一部非常写实的西部屠牛记,这本书是分两次看完的第一次从开头看到准备下山,第二次看完全书。分两次阅读也体现了我对本书的感受,前面进城镇,进山,捕猎,非常连贯而又充满细节,每件事的环境,状况,人们做了什么,都描写的非常细致,仿佛在看一个纪录片,但是作者所设置的...
评分这部小说曾被誉为“最好的西部小说”,不过作者约翰·威廉斯却很不喜欢这一说法,也拒绝因此被贴上“西部文学大师”的标签。当然,他是对的:就像《红楼梦》不应由于主角们都是一群少男少女而被归类为“青春文学”一样,西部仅仅是《屠夫十字镇》故事发生的背景,但小说本身探...
评分 评分至今,约翰 威廉斯目前已经有中文版的三本小说《奥古斯都》、《斯通纳》、《屠夫十字镇》均看完。意想不到的是,三者中豆瓣评分最低的《屠夫十字镇》反而是我最喜欢的。 这本书写的是来自波士顿大城市的受过良好教育的年轻人,来到西部寻找自我的故事。在残忍、荒芜的大自然里...
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