William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known.
And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into...
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known.
And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.
John Williams's luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.
作者简介
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John Williams was born on August 29, 1922 in Clarksville, Texas. He served in the United States Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945 in China, Burma and India. The Swallow Press published his first novel, Nothing But the Night, in 1948, as well as his first book of poems, The Broken Landscape, in 1949. Macmillan published Williams' second novel, Butcher's Crossing, in 1960. After r...
John Williams was born on August 29, 1922 in Clarksville, Texas. He served in the United States Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945 in China, Burma and India. The Swallow Press published his first novel, Nothing But the Night, in 1948, as well as his first book of poems, The Broken Landscape, in 1949. Macmillan published Williams' second novel, Butcher's Crossing, in 1960. After recieving his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Denver, and his Ph.D from the University of Missouri, Williams returned in 1954 to the University of Denver where he taught literature and the craft of writing for thirty years. In 1963 Williams received a fellowship to study at Oxford University where where he received a Rockefeller grant enabling him to travel and research in Italy for his last novel, Augustus, published in 1972. John Williams died in Arkansas on March 4, 1994.
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nothingness. And one has to experience it subjectively to determine its meaningfulness. From a Jungian perspective, Stoner put great eff...Each life event, grand or trivial, can be set on a spectrum of
nothingness. And one has to experience it subjectively to determine its meaningfulness. From a Jungian perspective, Stoner put great efforts towards his individuation without much awareness, but at least he is more self-conscious than most human beings on earth.(展开)
太温柔。太平凡。太真实。You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become and what you are doing. You are the only person know who you are. Even though your life just like a bubble dream before su...太温柔。太平凡。太真实。You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become and what you are doing. You are the only person know who you are. Even though your life just like a bubble dream before sunset…(展开)
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13 有用 瞳 2016-01-19 12:44:39
看完这本书，写了短短一句感慨：好像怎样都过不好人生。斯通纳的一生真是太普通了，普通得可以穿越时代找到无数同类人。读到后40%，斯通纳的空虚与绝望唤起我心中很大的共鸣。太熟悉了。那种静静的看着虚空找不到生存的意义的绝望。 斯通纳勤恳，单纯，逆来顺受，都是他人生遗憾的原因。单纯的勤恳让他终生留在校园里却以副教授的职位结束了职业生涯，没有荣誉，没有建树。可能本来可以有的，他却在lomax的压迫中浪费了太... 看完这本书，写了短短一句感慨：好像怎样都过不好人生。斯通纳的一生真是太普通了，普通得可以穿越时代找到无数同类人。读到后40%，斯通纳的空虚与绝望唤起我心中很大的共鸣。太熟悉了。那种静静的看着虚空找不到生存的意义的绝望。 斯通纳勤恳，单纯，逆来顺受，都是他人生遗憾的原因。单纯的勤恳让他终生留在校园里却以副教授的职位结束了职业生涯，没有荣誉，没有建树。可能本来可以有的，他却在lomax的压迫中浪费了太多时间。 他的逆来顺受简直是致命的弱点，也提醒了我，真正想要的还是要放手一搏的，有时候不是为了得到什么具体的东西，而是为了生命本身的尊严。他的逆来顺受不仅糟践了自己的人生，更放弃了作为父亲的责任而间接毁了女儿的一生。他的逆来顺受也让Katherine轰轰烈烈的爱潦草收场。 人生，真不是那么容易。 (展开)
3 有用 Daisy Li 2016-02-02 23:30:23
我想，好的小說是每位讀者都能從主人公身上找到自己的影子。《斯通納》就是這樣的小說，主人公斯通納就是那位像鏡子一般幫助讀者照見自我的人。他是一個普通得不能再普通的男人，沒有俗世意義上的功成名就，卻終其一生都不曾放棄對理想的追求和對信念的堅守。有時候，平凡與偉大之間，並無深淵巨壑。
6 有用 rockyblur 2016-04-21 03:21:23
what did you expect?
5 有用 lieerli 2014-01-03 11:37:07
近来大热的一本旧书 确实带着过去年代的克制和优美。一生不过某些片断而已 然后就过去了。
54 有用 Al. 2015-08-05 05:54:19
泪点：Katherine后来去了一个女校教书，博士论文出了书，谨致W.S.。
0 有用 W 2024-05-28 18:02:36 荷兰
那些细碎的光点是活过的证明。he had had all, he had life, no more.
0 有用 琉璃仙人 2024-05-26 18:12:58 上海
Each life event, grand or trivial, can be set on a spectrum of nothingness. And one has to experience it subjectively to determine its meaningfulness. From a Jungian perspective, Stoner put great eff... Each life event, grand or trivial, can be set on a spectrum of nothingness. And one has to experience it subjectively to determine its meaningfulness. From a Jungian perspective, Stoner put great efforts towards his individuation without much awareness, but at least he is more self-conscious than most human beings on earth. (展开)
0 有用 Jesuispersonne 2024-04-12 19:58:57 澳大利亚
Oh Stoner… I can’t…
0 有用 宝天天123 2024-04-06 19:43:59 北京
道尽了一个平凡人的勇气，一个普通人的坚持。谁说跌宕起伏才是人生，不伤害他人、不放弃自己，平平淡淡走完一生亦是一种成功。生而为人，真应该多对自己说“It’s fine~”。另外作者的语言描述真的太美了，散文一样的小说，爱了。
0 有用 乔乙 2024-04-04 00:32:06 浙江
太温柔。太平凡。太真实。You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become and what you are doing. You are the only person know who you are. Even though your life just like a bubble dream before su... 太温柔。太平凡。太真实。You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become and what you are doing. You are the only person know who you are. Even though your life just like a bubble dream before sunset… (展开)