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今天我们谈起美国作家约翰·威廉斯,仿佛在谈论一种悖论。出于自我的偏好,这位“作家中的作家”天然地屏蔽了自己与现实的勾联。在《斯通纳》出版之前,他的作家名声仅仅停留于两部与现实相悖的小说《屠夫十字镇》与《奥古斯都》。前者取材19世纪末的美国西部,后者来自遥远的古罗马时代。直到1968年《斯通纳》横空出世,他才以文学的方式与现实小小地握了握手。《屠夫十字镇》开始于一个老生常谈的故事,关于自我发现,关于寻梦成长。威廉斯从流行的“一毛钱小说”中提炼真知,几番锻造,炼制出一部并不史诗的西部史诗。主人公威廉·安德鲁斯是一个空想主义者:来自东北部上流社会,有令人艳羡的
Today we talk about the American writer John Williams, as if talking about a paradox. Out of self-preference, the author of the writer “naturally shields himself from the reality. Prior to the publication of Stoner, his reputation as a writer was limited to two novels ”Butchers Cross Town“ and ”Augustus“ that were contrary to reality. The former is drawn from the western United States of the late 19th century, which came from the distant ancient Roman times. It was not until 1968 that Stoner was turned out that he had shook hands with reality in a literary way. The Butcher Cross Town begins with a cliché about self-discovery and dreaming. Williams from the popular ”a dime novel " extract true knowledge, repeated forging, refining an epic western epic. The protagonist William Andrews is an imaginary: from the northeast high society, there is envy