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Tot i que l'escriptor nord-americà John Williams va rebre el National Book Award, la seva obra ha estat oblidada durant molts anys. Stoner (1965) explica la història de William Stoner, un jove virtuós i discret, fill d'uns camperols de Missouri, que amb gran esforç dels seus pares és enviat a la Facultat d'Agricultura.Aviat, però, s'adona que la seva verdadera vocació són les lletres. Seduït per aquest descobriment, la literatura esdevé una autèntica obsessió que el porta a renunciar a la granja familiar i a convertir-se en professor. Abocat a l'estudi i tancat en el món universitari, on du una vida solitària i senzilla, el seu caràcter taciturn i fred s'aguditza i van passant els anys, amb males relacions amb els alumnes, greus fracassos sentimentals i familiars, sense col·legues ni amics. Una vida grisa, plena d'errors, en la qual només hi ha un instant digne de glòria: el moment en què descobreix la literatura, la seva única passió.Amb Stoner, John Williams aconsegueix condensar tota una vida en una novel·la. Una obra mestra que, en paraules del narrador, recrea com "a algú se li va concedir la saviesa i al cap dels anys va trobar la ignorància".
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domestic fiction, psychological fiction, Literature, Fiction, Study and teaching, College teachers, Adultery, English teachers, Marital conflict, campus, academic, College teachers, fiction, Missouri, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, family life, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, psychological, Middle west, fiction, Littérature, Romans, nouvelles, Étude et enseignement, Professeurs d'anglais, Conflits conjugauxShowing 10 featured editions. View all 47 editions?
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2014, Dt. Taschenbuch-Verl., Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
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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.
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