John Williams, a remarkable stylist

This is the second novel by John Williams for me to comment on your site and I must say I prefer "Butcher's Crossing" especially for its remarkable descriptions of the landscapes of the American West. With "Stoner" we still see the author's talent stylist: sober, eloquent, moving, never pretentious. Every sentence, every paragraph has worked for us to know the soul of his hero (or anti-hero), William Stoner. One can only think of a sort of autobiography - John Williams and William Stoner. The novel is written entirely from the perspective of this modest literature professor in a state university (one is not at Harvard, and if one is in Columbia it is because the university in question is in this city) and therefore, it is difficult to identify the psychology of other characters around him, especially that of his wife (the logical explanation of his behavior would be a mental illness) and that of his "enemy" within the department 'English, a Lomax, hunchback.
I recommend this beautiful novel, classic in its construction and in its themes and I will let you enjoy the end is a small masterpiece of emotion work while detained.