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.
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.
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...
評分美国作家约翰·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...
評分首先,威廉斯的这部小说体现出一种克制力,一种克制自我的能力。他在这种文风的基础上,试图去真正地还原历史,体现出对历史强烈的敬畏感。我估计他写这部小说所花的力气明显要比那两部要大得多,因为这要阅读很多的历史文献,他需要认识每个历史人物的形象与性格,了解他们的...
評分盖乌斯·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...
評分第三捲陡高!
评分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William的書真的太好看瞭,文筆好到引人入勝。太空虛瞭
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评分William的書真的太好看瞭,文筆好到引人入勝。太空虛瞭
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