Annotation
American John Williams’s novel about the life of university professor-philologist William Stoner, a dried-up, nerdy, and unsuccessful man, has an unusual fate. This book became an object of worship and was not recognized as a masterpiece until forty years after its first publication and more than a decade after the author’s death. Completely devoid of flashy decoration and stylistic tinsel, this novel – deliberately soft and deceptively dim – has one curious property: the history of the human soul appears in it cleansed of all external and extraneous, in all its tragic grandeur and exalted purity.
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