John Williams

Simply, it is a story about a man who goes to college and becomes a teacher. But it is one of the most remarkable things you will ever encounter. Tom Hanks - American actor. The novel "Stoner" was first published in 1965, and it is considered part of academic literature or stories set on university campuses, with details that touch on psychological anxiety and surrender to life's paths. Although the novel did not become famous in the sixties, and its initial sales did not exceed two thousand copies, it was revived after nearly fifty years. The novel appears outwardly as an academic story, like a historical diary exclusively for academics. It has old-fashioned values, pre-war values, as it clings to conscience as the greatest virtue and reward in life. As for its prose, compared to Fitzgerald's lyricism, it seems strict and precise; there is nothing flamboyant about it, but it is capable of lasting like polished hard wood. It is a work with a flawless narrative structure, like an old house that others do not know how to rebuild again. Despite the ease of the text, "Stoner" remains a difficult read, not because it is obscure but because it is painful. Williams succeeded in forcibly depriving his hero of happiness in his marriage, his relationship with his daughter and his lover, the college student, and even in his job. And this was an excessive cruelty. In one of the rare conversations John Williams had in his life, he said: "I believe he is a true hero. Many people who read Stoner thought he only had a sad and bad life. I believe he had a very good life. It is a better life than many others have lived. He had feelings about what he was doing, and the most important part of the novel is Stoner's sense of his work and his feeling of responsibility. The work that gave him his identity and shaped his being as he appeared."