具體描述
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.
作者簡介
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.
目錄資訊
讀後感
我承認，在閱讀本書之前，我並不知道約翰‧威廉斯這位作家，他一生的作品不多，都是我不感興趣的。而這部《奧古斯都》，則是偶然看到簡體版的譯者鄭遠濤先生的介紹時，方才知道有此優秀的作品存在。 《奧古斯都》正如其名，是一部講述那位知名的羅馬“第一公民”屋大維一生的...
評分我承認，在閱讀本書之前，我並不知道約翰‧威廉斯這位作家，他一生的作品不多，都是我不感興趣的。而這部《奧古斯都》，則是偶然看到簡體版的譯者鄭遠濤先生的介紹時，方才知道有此優秀的作品存在。 《奧古斯都》正如其名，是一部講述那位知名的羅馬“第一公民”屋大維一生的...
評分边看边画的《奥古斯都》人物关系图 真诚奉上 感谢该作品带给我的感动 ——————分割线—————— 一切生命大概都是神秘莫测的，包括我的生命。 我逐渐相信，每个人一生中迟早会有个时刻令他知道——无论他还懂别的什么，无论他能否说清自己所知——那件恐怖的事实：他是孤...
評分我的命运是改变世界，但时间会毁掉罗马 赵松 距今2062年前，即公元前44年的3月15日，罗马共和国发生了一件影响深远的大事件——终身独裁官尤利乌斯·凯撒在元老院遇刺身亡。随后出现的，却并非刺杀凯撒的那些贵族共和派所宣称的“自由”，而是罗马陷入了无政府状态的可怕动乱。...
評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...
用戶評價
2.作者在小說中所錶現的對細節的恢復：計時飲食等 3.呼應是否過於刻意？
评分2017.26.B.
评分書信，總是帶著風，韆裏飄搖。信封中，是靈魂碎片，有情意綿綿，有暗流洶湧，有劍拔弩張，有滄海桑田。John Williams不僅容納書信，還有公文，辭令，日記...透過精心安排，於虛實之間，構建齣奧古都斯一生之波瀾。此謂形式。再者，長篇小說之結構最見作傢的功力。第一部，徵服史，即成功史。第二部，私生活，即失敗史。前兩部，均為人言，由此一筆一畫雕刻奧古都斯之輪廓。第三部，是“本尊”之正聲，是靈魂奧義，亦是巨大彩蛋。John Williams的奧古都斯，一去莎士比亞劇作中之陰險狡詐，樹立正麵形象，由神至人，令讀者切膚共鳴。就如“命運”二字，“命”為注定，而“運”為偶然，命在前，運在後，命定與意外摩擦，不斷侵蝕，迴望中，方滄桑。生命，不論偉大或卑微，都不免通嚮極緻：麵對自我。而自我，即孤島，即牢籠。
评分波瀾壯闊 潸然淚下
评分好像約翰.威廉斯特彆擅長在最後寫這種經提純的靈魂。從《屠夫十字鎮》到《斯通納》，再到這本《奧古斯都》，他的視角看似由蕓蕓眾生轉嚮偉大領袖，但實則一直以來，威廉斯寫下的是人類的靈魂。不論偉大或卑微，也不應由偉大或卑微進行劃分。他傳統、內斂、自省，將對情感的錶達控製在嚴肅的維度裏。他筆下的羅馬皇帝於一生落幕的遠航中，提筆寫下緻友人的書信，在其中剖析瞭自己作為各種角色走過的歲月，年少的友情與誌嚮，改變世界的命運與決心，文明與野蠻，人性的卑劣與其中一瞬之光，超越一切、純粹的愛……最後他終於釋然，羅馬遲早將被徵服，他從不因自己的偉業而感驕傲，卻領悟瞭足夠使自己感到慰藉的傳承。於是他的靈魂終不至於被一切成空的絕望所壓倒，在那片汪洋中得以沐浴著晨光，迴顧少年時代的舊夢，駛嚮終點。
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