Augustus

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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.

出版者:NYRB Classics
作者:John Williams
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页数:336
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出版时间:2014-8-19
价格:USD 15.95
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9781590178218
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  • 约翰·威廉斯 
  • 古罗马 
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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.

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美国作家约翰·威廉斯1922年出生于德克萨斯州,两年的兵役期结束后,终其一生都在大学任教。他出版过四本小说(《唯有黑夜》《屠夫十字镇》《斯通纳》《奥古斯都》),留下一部未竟之作《理性的沉睡》。作为小说家,他的经历平稳而安全,研究的是小说,写作的是小说,最后以教...  

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凯文伯明翰在《最危险的书》序言曾写过一句我自认为非常漂亮的话, 他说:“当你打开一本书,你就进入了一段漫长旅途的尽头。” 这种感觉,在读历史小说时只会更甚,你当然可以依据史实知道每一本这样小说的结局——放逐在外的皇子成功继承大统亦或是权倾朝野的奸臣最终株连九...  

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On top of the world, he is alone。历史小说的典范,Williams用日记体形式大概是更容易深入人物内心

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William的书真的太好看了,文笔好到引人入胜。太空虚了

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2.作者在小说中所表现的对细节的恢复:计时饮食等 3.呼应是否过于刻意?

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怎么说呢。人物本身真实故事之精彩,超过了小说家的虚构能力。情节依靠史料,细节有虚构,无甚出奇之处。多视角写法和材料剪裁很好。总体中规中矩吧

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好书好书好书╰(*°▽°*)╯细节超赞,需要再看一遍缕缕

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