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约翰·威廉斯 John Williams (1922-1994),美国作家、诗人、学者。辍过学,当过电台播音,从过军。退役后入大学就读并获博士学位,于1954-1985年间在母校丹佛大学教授大学英语及创意写作。曾编选《文艺复兴时期的英语诗歌》,也创作过两本诗集。一生只写了 四部小说:《惟有黑夜》(1948)、《屠夫十字镇》(1960)、《斯通纳》(1965)、《奥古斯都》(1973,本书获得当年美国国家图书奖)。对约翰·威廉斯的写作,英国作家朱利安·巴恩斯评论:“当我称之为‘绝佳’,我的意思是它们(《屠夫十字镇》《斯通纳》)已经超越了各自类型范围内的评价标准。”
In his National Book Award winning novel Augustus , John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing , his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.
It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek ''an original relation to nature,'' drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher's Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisiacal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher's Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
在谈论以品钦、德里罗为代表的当代作家作品时,文学评论家詹姆斯•伍德使用了“歇斯底里现实主义”的断语。他认为,现代派小说无论从结构还是篇幅都称得上是“巨无霸”。作家们雄心勃勃,一方面沿袭狄更斯以来严整的叙事体系,一方面穷尽后现代把戏颠覆前人,洋洋洒洒近千页...
评分美国作家约翰·爱德华·威廉斯(1922-1994)是文学出版界的一个奇特现象。其“学术小说”《斯托纳》(Stoner)近年因法国作家安娜·贾维尔达(Anna Gavalda) 将其翻译成法文,并极力推崇,在欧洲热卖。这部小说写于1965年,此番重出江湖时,出版商宣传其为“你尚未读过的最伟大的...
评分终于在国庆期间读完了《屠夫十字镇》。 跟上一本看作者另一部小说《斯通纳》一样简单的剧情。“寻找自我”的主人公安德鲁斯从哈佛辍学,想远离父辈和社会的枷锁来到西部兜一下风。他来到屠夫镇,遇到了想着征服自然的米勒和相信上帝的查理,带上现实派的是施内德,开始他们屠...
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