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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.
- JohnWilliams
- 历史
- 小说
- 约翰·威廉斯
- 古罗马
- English
- 美国文学
- 文学
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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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...
评分一个个矛盾的人物穿插上演了这出罗马史诗，每一个人物塑造地都极其好，极其丰满生动。这不止是奥古斯都一个人的传奇，如果说奥古斯都是月，配角是星，这本书就构成了很美很美的一幕星河夜景，令人叹息，令人唏嘘。宿命的感觉，难逃又无处可寻的无奈感。 奥古斯都·凯撒，19岁组...
评分美国作家约翰·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...
评分 评分盖乌斯·屋大维·恺撒，人称奥古斯都，是罗马帝国第一位元首，为罗马带来了两个世纪的和平与繁荣。关于他的史料从不匮乏且毁誉参半：作为一个不算太坏的独裁者，他如何平衡私欲和善举？作为一个有表演欲的政治家，我们又能在史料中读到多少真实？ 约翰·威廉斯无意深究历史细节...
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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.
评分书信，总是带着风，千里飘摇。信封中，是灵魂碎片，有情意绵绵，有暗流汹涌，有剑拔弩张，有沧海桑田。John Williams不仅容纳书信，还有公文，辞令，日记...透过精心安排，于虚实之间，构建出奥古都斯一生之波澜。此谓形式。再者，长篇小说之结构最见作家的功力。第一部，征服史，即成功史。第二部，私生活，即失败史。前两部，均为人言，由此一笔一画雕刻奥古都斯之轮廓。第三部，是“本尊”之正声，是灵魂奥义，亦是巨大彩蛋。John Williams的奥古都斯，一去莎士比亚剧作中之阴险狡诈，树立正面形象，由神至人，令读者切肤共鸣。就如“命运”二字，“命”为注定，而“运”为偶然，命在前，运在后，命定与意外摩擦，不断侵蚀，回望中，方沧桑。生命，不论伟大或卑微，都不免通向极致：面对自我。而自我，即孤岛，即牢笼。
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