Stoner: A Novel

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Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer – in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on bestseller lists across Europe. Forty-eight years after its first, quiet publication in the US, Stoner is finally finding the wide and devoted readership it deserves. Have you read it yet?

William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death his colleagues remember him rarely.

Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value. Stoner tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history, and reclaims the significance of an individual life. A reading experience like no other, itself a paean to the power of literature, it is a novel to be savoured.

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"I was stunned by it... It’s beautifully written in simple but brilliant prose, a novel of an ordinary life, an examination of a quiet tragedy, the work of a great but little-known writer" (Ruth Rendell Guardian)

"A masterpiece of sad lucidity, as moving as it is psychologically compelling" (Peter Kemp Sunday Times)

"It is a remarkably affecting story, told in quiet, unshowy prose" (Stefan Collini Times Literary Supplement)

"In recent times I have owed more to word of mouth than to the statements of reviewers, when it comes to finding my way to rewarding work published or reissued… This is also true, or truer still, of Stoner" (Karl Miller Times Literary Supplement)

"My favourite book of the year...a masterpiece―beautifully written with a rare tenderness and wisdom that will make you want to read it again" (Jonathan Pugh Daily Mail)

"With prose of breathtaking clarity, and a narrative that flows along seamlessly, Williams subverts the American dream via an underachieving and rather unlucky university lecturer... Anyone who loves literature will surely love this" (Judy Moir Herald)

"The other book that cheered me up this year was Stoner by John Williams…re-emerging this year – rather triumphantly (and permanently this time, I think)" (Robin Robertson Glasgow Sunday Herald)

"A compassionate depiction of Everyman that celebrates the transformative power of literature" (Melonie Clarke The Lady)

"A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life… I’m amazed a novel this good escaped general attention for so long" (Ian McEwan)

"A terrific novel of echoing sadness" (Julian Barnes)

作者简介

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.

网友对Stoner: A Novel的评论

纵观Stoner的一生，可以说是失败的，糟糕的婚姻、没有得到任何的晋升的教学生涯、挚爱的女儿终是和他疏远。但他却是活出了自我：摒弃了农业科学而选择了打心底里喜欢的文学、为了教书的尊严与正义不惜对抗系主任、在中年之际遇见了他想要的爱情、将自己的一生都奉献给了自己喜爱的文学、在别人都为战争摇旗呐喊时依然坚持着自己的立场而不盲从。平实的文字，或者自述性的故事更像是在洞观了平凡人的一生。他在寒冷的冬夜往家里走去，感受着积雪在脚底轻轻地响。他既感到高兴也觉得恐慌，好像不再为远方亲戚劳作了就与过去的世界彻底划清了界限。

很多人推荐的modern classic，于是买回来读，内容应该是很好的，就是最后有好几页白纸，之前买书从未遇到过这种情况，以为印刷有问题，于是申请了换货，换了之后发现还是这样，好吧，就这么奇葩。没有什么质量问题，大家可以放心购买。

读过一阵才评价。敲了很多字还是作罢，这是一个卢瑟的故事，就让他随着那页纸，在合上书的瞬间消逝，带着他的爱、他的书、他的信仰、他的平庸。我是他，每个人都是他，曾经被梦想带到了生活的缝隙里，死死地卡在了深处。

很好的一本书，虽然有些抑郁，但很真实。也许这就是生活。文人可以读一读。

正在读，很压抑。人生就是一个不断受捶的过程。爱的能力，说起来简单，做到却不容易。

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