STONER

Imagen de cubierta: STONER
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Idioma: 
Inglés
Número de páginas: 
278
Dimensiones: 205 cm × 130 cm × 0 cm
Fecha de publicación: 
2020
ISBN: 
978-1-59017-199-8

A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life...I'm amazed a novel this good escaped general attention for so long. --Ian McEwan

"One of the great unheralded 20th-century American novels ...Almost perfect." --Bret Easton Ellis

" Stoner is a novel of an ordinary life, an examination of a quiet tragedy, the work of a great but little-known writer." --Ruth Rendell

"A beautiful and moving novel, as sweeping, intimate, and mysterious as life itself." --Geoff Dyer

"I have read few novels as deep and as clear as Stoner. It deserves to be called a quiet classic of American literature." --Chad Harbach

"The most beautiful book in the world." --Emma Straub

"A poignant campus novel from the mid-'60s--an unjustly neglected gem." --Nick Hornby, People

"The book begins boldly with a mention of Stoner's death, and a nod to his profound averageness: 'Few students remembered him with any sharpness after they had taken his courses.' By the end, though, Williams has made Stoner's disappointing life into such a deep and honest portrait, so unsoftened and unromanticized, that it's quietly breathtaking."-- The Boston Globe

"Williams' descriptions of the experience of reading both elucidate and evince the pleasures of literary language; the 'minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words' in which Stoner finds joy are re-enacted in Williams' own perfect fusion of words."-- n+1

" Stoner, by John Williams, is a slim novel, and not a particularly joyous one. But it is so quietly beautiful and moving, so precisely constructed, that you want to read it in one sitting and enjoy being in it, altered somehow, as if you have been allowed to wear an exquisitely tailored garment that you don't want to take off."-- The Globe and Mail


"One of the great forgotten novels of the past century. I have bought at least 50 copies of it in the past few years, using it as a gift for friends...The book is so beautifully paced and cadenced that it deserves the status of classic."--Colum McCann, Top 10 Novels, The Guardian

" Stoner is undeniably a great book, but I can also understand why it isn't a sentimental favorite in its native land. You could almost describe it as an anti-Gatsby...Part of Stoner's greatness is that it sees life whole and as it is, without delusion yet without despair...The novel embodies the very virtues it exalts, the same virtues that probably relegate it, like its titular hero, to its perpetual place in the shade. But the book, like professor William Stoner, isn't out to win popularity contests. It endures, illumined from within."--Tim Kreider, The New Yorker

"It's simply a novel about a guy who goes to college and becomes a teacher. But it's one of the most fascinating things that you've ever come across."--Tom Hanks, Time

" Stoner is written in the most plainspoken of styles...Its hero is an obscure academic who endures a series of personal and professional agonies. Yet the novel is utterly riveting, and for one simple reason: because the author, John Williams, treats his characters with such tender and ruthless honesty that we cannot help but love them."--Steve Almond, Tin House

"The best book I read in 2007 was Stoner by John Williams. It's perhaps the best book I've read in years."--Stephen Elliott, The Believer

"John Williams's Stoner is something rarer than a great novel--it is a perfect novel, so well told and beautifully written, so deeply moving, that it takes your breath away."-- The New York Times Book Review

"Williams didn't write much compared with some novelists, but everything he did was exceedingly fine...it's a shame that he's not more often read today...But it's great that at least two of his novels [ Stoner, Butcher's Crossing] have found their way back into print."-- The Denver Post

"A masterly portrait of a truly virtuous and dedicated man."-- The New Yorker

"Why isn't this book famous...Very few novels in English, or literary productions of any kind, have come anywhere near its level for human wisdom or as a work of art."--C. P. Snow

"Serious, beautiful and affecting, what makes Stoner so impressive is the contained intensity the author and character share."--Irving Howe, The New Republic

"A quiet but resonant achievement."-- The Times Literary Supplement

"Perhaps the greatest example of minimalism I've ever read... Stoner is a story of great hope for the writer who cares about her work."--Stephen Elliott

" Stoner by John Williams, contains what is no doubt my favorite literary romance of all time. William Stoner is well into his 40s, and mired in an unhappy marriage, when he meets Katherine, another shy professor of literature. The affair that ensues is described with a beauty so fierce that it takes my breath away each time I read it. The chapters devoted to this romance are both terribly sexy and profoundly wise."-- The Christian Science Monitor

AUTOR/A

WILLIAMS, JOHN

Williams, John: (1922-1994) nació y se crió en el noreste de Texas. Después de desempeñar varios empleos en periódicos y estaciones de radio, Williams se enroló en el ejército en 1942. Varios años después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial fue a la Universidad de Denver, donde obtuvo su licenciatura en 1949, y su maestría en 1950. Durante este periodo publicó su primera novela, Nothing But the Night (1948), y su primera colección de poemas, The Broken Landscape (1949). En otoño de 1950 Williams fue a la Universidad de Missouri, donde ejerció como profesor y obtuvo el doctorado en 1954. La segunda novela en publicarse fue Butcher's Crossing (1960). Su segundo libro de poemas, The Necessary Lie se publicó en 1965, año en el que se convirtió en editor de la revista literaria University of Denver Quarterly, hasta 1970. Ese mismo año apareció su tercera novela, STONER (Tenerife, 2010 - 2011 (3ª edición). Su última obra publicada, Augustus, fue ganadora del National Book Award de ficción en 1973. Tras jubilarse de la Universidad de Denver en 1986, Williams se trasladó con su mujer a Fayetteville, Arkansas, hasta su muerte el 3 de marzo de 1994. Una quinta novela, The Sleep Of Reason, quedó inacabada en el momento de su fallecimiento.).<BR>

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