Stoner
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Kada je 1965. objavljen, Stoner Johna Williamsa prošao je gotovo posve nezapaženo. Danas, pola stoljeća preporuka poslije, remek-djelo američkog romanopisca voljom se oduševljenih čitatelja pretvorilo u svjetsku književnu senzaciju. No u čemu je tajna zavodljivosti priče o tihom profesoru engleske književnosti, o njegovu “malom” životu na malome sveučilištu u Missouriju? Je li u njegovu nesretnom braku ili u njegovoj izvanbračnoj ljubavi? U njegovu odnosu s kćeri, ili u njegovoj strasti prema književnosti, zbog koje će kao mladić napustiti roditeljsku farmu, opčinjen čarolijom jednog Shakespeareova soneta? Tajna je, jednostavno, u Stoneru. William Stoner nije junak na kakve smo navikli i koje je lako reklamirati. Nije najhrabriji, ni najbolji u svome poslu, nije najuspješniji, ni najsretniji, a opet – ljudski život teško da se može proživjeti hrabrije, punije, sretnije i bolje od onoga kako je živio Stoner. Stoner je iznimna knjiga o naizgled nimalo iznimnom čovjeku, u kojoj ćemo se, uz malo sreće, prepoznati.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This reprint of Williams's remarkable 1965 novel offers a window on early 20th century higher education in addition to its rich characterizations and seamless prose. Sent by his hard-scrabble farmer father to the University of Missouri to study agriculture, William Stoner is sidetracked by an obsessive love of literature and stimulated by a curmudgeonly old professor, Archer Sloane. Sloane helps Stoner avoid service in WWI, and Stoner eventually becomes an assistant professor. He then meets and marries a St. Louis beauty, Edith, who quickly subjugates her contemplative, passive husband. As decades pass, Stoner entrenches himself deep into the life of the mind, developing into a master teacher but never finding solace in the outside world. Stoner's single joy is Grace, their daughter, whom Edith appropriates as a weapon in her very personal war against Stoner's quest for inner peace. Williams (1922 1994) won the NBA for Augustus (1973), and NYRB will republish his western, Butch's Crossing next year. Williams's prose flows in a smooth, efficient current that demands contemplation.
