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The masterpiece "Stoner," considered a life-changing novel by countless literature lovers around the world, is published with the cover that was first published in the United States in 1965.
The first edition of this book went out of print within a year of its publication over 50 years ago, but it was republished in the 2010s across Europe, including the UK, the Netherlands, and France, creating a legend of reverse bestseller.
Critic Maurice Dickstein praised the book, calling it “the best novel you’ve ever heard,” and renowned British authors Nick Hornby, Ian McEwan, and Julian Barnes, as well as numerous domestic celebrities and readers, also expressed their affection for it.
This edition includes the full text of literary critic Shin Hyeong-cheol's recommendation.
Additionally, the illustrations included in the first edition have been perfectly reproduced.
This is a painting of a building at the university where the protagonist Stoner spent his entire life, destroyed by fire and leaving only the pillars.
Even in the ruins, the pillars stand out, creating a strange but beautiful landscape.
This is even more significant because it symbolizes the way of life that Stoner has embraced.
This work is a story about a man who wanted to quietly walk his own path.
Stoner was born the son of a farmer and entered agricultural college, but changed his major to English literature against his parents' wishes.
Even when the fever of war swept through the youth, he paid no attention, and even after becoming a professor, he showed no intention of pursuing career advancement.
You can be deeply moved by watching Stoner, who quietly and simply pursues his passion without rest.
Just as Stoner, who lived in one place his entire life, was able to experience the joy of transcending his own space through literature, I hope that through the first edition of Stoner, you too can experience the wonder of transcending the decades of time this novel has endured.
The first edition of this book went out of print within a year of its publication over 50 years ago, but it was republished in the 2010s across Europe, including the UK, the Netherlands, and France, creating a legend of reverse bestseller.
Critic Maurice Dickstein praised the book, calling it “the best novel you’ve ever heard,” and renowned British authors Nick Hornby, Ian McEwan, and Julian Barnes, as well as numerous domestic celebrities and readers, also expressed their affection for it.
This edition includes the full text of literary critic Shin Hyeong-cheol's recommendation.
Additionally, the illustrations included in the first edition have been perfectly reproduced.
This is a painting of a building at the university where the protagonist Stoner spent his entire life, destroyed by fire and leaving only the pillars.
Even in the ruins, the pillars stand out, creating a strange but beautiful landscape.
This is even more significant because it symbolizes the way of life that Stoner has embraced.
This work is a story about a man who wanted to quietly walk his own path.
Stoner was born the son of a farmer and entered agricultural college, but changed his major to English literature against his parents' wishes.
Even when the fever of war swept through the youth, he paid no attention, and even after becoming a professor, he showed no intention of pursuing career advancement.
You can be deeply moved by watching Stoner, who quietly and simply pursues his passion without rest.
Just as Stoner, who lived in one place his entire life, was able to experience the joy of transcending his own space through literature, I hope that through the first edition of Stoner, you too can experience the wonder of transcending the decades of time this novel has endured.
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Translator's Note (Kim Seung-wook)
Reading "Stoner" (Shin Hyeong-cheol)
Translator's Note (Kim Seung-wook)
Reading "Stoner" (Shin Hyeong-cheol)
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Into the book
William Stoner entered the University of Missouri in 1910 at the age of nineteen.
Eight years later, during the height of World War I, he received his doctorate and became a lecturer at the same university, where he remained until his death in 1956.
He never rose above the rank of assistant professor, and few of the students who attended his lectures remember him with any vividness.
When he passed away, his colleagues donated medieval texts to the university library in his memory.
This document is still preserved in the Rare Books Museum, and the plaque reads as follows:
“Donated to the University of Missouri Library by his colleagues in memory of Professor William Stoner of the Department of English Literature.”
Occasionally a student might stumble upon this name and casually wonder who William Stoner was, but rarely does he go to any lengths to satisfy his curiosity.
Stoner's colleagues did not think particularly highly of him when he was alive, and they still seldom mention his name.
For the old professors, Stoner's name serves as a reminder of the apocalypse that awaits them, and for the younger professors, it is merely a name that reminds them of nothing about the past and offers no sense of kinship.
--- p.6
You will see the seasons from me.
On a tree branch shivering in the cold
A season with few or no yellow leaves
The choir, where beautiful birds sang not long ago, has become a bleak ruin.
You will see the twilight of that day in me.
As the sunset fades in the west
The twilight that will soon be brought by the dark night
The second self of death that seals everything in rest
The twilight that will bring that dark night.
You will see the light of such a burning flame in me.
It was consumed along with what was nourished
Like a deathbed where one must give up one's life
A flame placed on the ashes of youth
When you realize this, your love becomes stronger.
I will love you well as I have to leave soon.
--- p.18~19
Sloan's gaze returned to William Stoner.
He said in a dry voice.
“Shakespeare is speaking to you from three hundred years ago, Mr. Stoner.
“Can you hear his voice?”
William Stoner realized he had been holding his breath for a long time.
He exhaled gently, carefully aware of the movement of his clothes with each breath that escaped his lungs.
He took his eyes off Sloan and looked around the classroom.
The sunlight streaming in slantedly through the window settled on the faces of my fellow students, making it seem as if the light from within them was spreading out against the darkness.
As one student blinked, a thin shadow fell on his cheek.
The sunlight caught on the fluff on my cheek.
Stoner felt the strength drain from his fingers that had been gripping the desk tightly.
He turned his hand around, admiring its brown skin and the intricate mechanism that shaped the nails to fit snugly onto his blunt fingertips.
I felt the blood pulsating delicately in the tiny veins and arteries, flowing anxiously from my fingertips to my entire body.
--- p.19~20
“Don’t you know, Mr. Stoner?” asked Sloan.
“Still don't know yourself? You're destined to be an educator.”
Suddenly Sloan seemed very far away.
The walls of the lab seemed to have receded as well.
Stoner felt as if he were floating in mid-air.
I heard my own voice asking the question.
“Are you sure?”
“Really,” Sloan said softly.
--- p.29
The two talked late into the night like old friends.
Stoner realized that Grace was almost embracing despair, as she herself had said.
Grace would quietly live each day, drinking more and more alcohol as the years went by, numbing herself to the emptiness of her life.
He thought it was fortunate that she had at least that kind of life.
I was grateful that Grace could drink.
Eight years later, during the height of World War I, he received his doctorate and became a lecturer at the same university, where he remained until his death in 1956.
He never rose above the rank of assistant professor, and few of the students who attended his lectures remember him with any vividness.
When he passed away, his colleagues donated medieval texts to the university library in his memory.
This document is still preserved in the Rare Books Museum, and the plaque reads as follows:
“Donated to the University of Missouri Library by his colleagues in memory of Professor William Stoner of the Department of English Literature.”
Occasionally a student might stumble upon this name and casually wonder who William Stoner was, but rarely does he go to any lengths to satisfy his curiosity.
Stoner's colleagues did not think particularly highly of him when he was alive, and they still seldom mention his name.
For the old professors, Stoner's name serves as a reminder of the apocalypse that awaits them, and for the younger professors, it is merely a name that reminds them of nothing about the past and offers no sense of kinship.
--- p.6
You will see the seasons from me.
On a tree branch shivering in the cold
A season with few or no yellow leaves
The choir, where beautiful birds sang not long ago, has become a bleak ruin.
You will see the twilight of that day in me.
As the sunset fades in the west
The twilight that will soon be brought by the dark night
The second self of death that seals everything in rest
The twilight that will bring that dark night.
You will see the light of such a burning flame in me.
It was consumed along with what was nourished
Like a deathbed where one must give up one's life
A flame placed on the ashes of youth
When you realize this, your love becomes stronger.
I will love you well as I have to leave soon.
--- p.18~19
Sloan's gaze returned to William Stoner.
He said in a dry voice.
“Shakespeare is speaking to you from three hundred years ago, Mr. Stoner.
“Can you hear his voice?”
William Stoner realized he had been holding his breath for a long time.
He exhaled gently, carefully aware of the movement of his clothes with each breath that escaped his lungs.
He took his eyes off Sloan and looked around the classroom.
The sunlight streaming in slantedly through the window settled on the faces of my fellow students, making it seem as if the light from within them was spreading out against the darkness.
As one student blinked, a thin shadow fell on his cheek.
The sunlight caught on the fluff on my cheek.
Stoner felt the strength drain from his fingers that had been gripping the desk tightly.
He turned his hand around, admiring its brown skin and the intricate mechanism that shaped the nails to fit snugly onto his blunt fingertips.
I felt the blood pulsating delicately in the tiny veins and arteries, flowing anxiously from my fingertips to my entire body.
--- p.19~20
“Don’t you know, Mr. Stoner?” asked Sloan.
“Still don't know yourself? You're destined to be an educator.”
Suddenly Sloan seemed very far away.
The walls of the lab seemed to have receded as well.
Stoner felt as if he were floating in mid-air.
I heard my own voice asking the question.
“Are you sure?”
“Really,” Sloan said softly.
--- p.29
The two talked late into the night like old friends.
Stoner realized that Grace was almost embracing despair, as she herself had said.
Grace would quietly live each day, drinking more and more alcohol as the years went by, numbing herself to the emptiness of her life.
He thought it was fortunate that she had at least that kind of life.
I was grateful that Grace could drink.
--- p.347~348
Publisher's Review
Recommended by film critic Lee Dong-jin, literary critic Shin Hyeong-cheol, and novelists Kim Yeon-su and Choi Eun-young!
The living legend of a reverse bestseller created by word of mouth!
[Pride and Prejudice], [Atonement] Director Joe Wright Confirmed to Be Adapted into a Film!
“We may live differently, but we are all stoners!”
“There is so much to say about this novel that I can’t even begin.”
Shin Hyeong-cheol (literary critic)
William Stoner, a farmer's son, goes to agricultural college to learn new farming methods at the behest of his parents.
I spend my days without the fantasy or romanticism that usually comes with entering college.
However, in his second year, a sonnet by Shakespeare in a required English Literature class changes his life completely.
“Shakespeare is speaking to you from three hundred years ago, Mr. Stoner.
“Can you hear his voice?” Stoner is left speechless in the classroom when asked by a middle-aged professor.
The novel contains Stoner's long journey to find his own answer to that question.
If you were to divide Stoner's life into the dichotomy of 'success' and 'failure', it would be closer to failure.
He fails to become a full professor at a university and fails to build a happy family.
But Stoner's life cannot be simply summarized as 'success' or 'failure'.
Stoner swallows his loneliness and bravely faces it, willingly accepting the one-person suffering that has been given to him in life.
This novel delicately and without exaggeration depicts our lives, which are filled with failures and ordinary despair, and recreates the texture most similar to real life.
Although it deals with extremely ordinary characters when viewed as a play, it maintains a body temperature that is almost identical to real life, leaving a belated feeling of emotion that comes only after closing the book.
The adage, 'Literature is life', is too common and obvious.
But there are no words that speak more eloquently about the value of literature than these words.
Instead of returning home to farm, Stoner becomes absorbed in literature and chooses to become an English literature student.
This novel begins by asking, "What is literature?" but ends with an answer to, "What is life?"
It's as if he's indirectly suggesting that to find answers about literature, we have no choice but to talk about life.
This may be the reason why many people, including famous writers such as Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, and Nick Hornby, have praised this novel as a 'novel of a lifetime'.
“You don’t have to worry so much.
As you live, things like that happen.
As time goes by, everything will work out.
“It’s not that important.”
_In the text
Those who brought this brilliant novel out of the old library
This book contains the original appearance they wanted to leave behind.
If you say, 'If the work is good, it will see the light of day,' many people will react with disapproval, calling it naive.
"Stoner" is a very powerful counter-example that can shout out to such people, "What are you talking about?"
When it was first published in 1965, only one publication covered the book.
Author John Williams also had little hope for the book's commercial viability.
In the end, the first edition of 2,000 copies failed to sell and went out of print the following year.
However, this book was circulated among discerning readers, graduate students, and professors.
Decades later, Edwin Frank, editor of the New York Review of Books, heard from the owner of the bookstore [Crawford Doyle] that there was a good book that had never seen the light of day.
He quickly obtained the book, read it, and then purchased the copyright.
Word of mouth spread that it was "the greatest novel you've never heard," and Stoner became a bestseller nearly 50 years after its publication.
There were many people who played a role in allowing this long-buried work to stand tall after the 2010s.
The small efforts and affection of these people—a few discerning readers who read this book and recommended it to their friends, the bookstore owner who recommended it to the editor, the critic who wrote a review, and the French novelist Anna Gabalda who insisted to the publisher that she really wanted to translate it—made the belief that good works somehow survive a reality.
This restored edition presents the book as they would have liked it to appear in the world.
The experience of encountering this great novel, long tucked away on a bookshelf, its fate unknown, will be a special gift to readers who love it and those who haven't yet discovered it.
The living legend of a reverse bestseller created by word of mouth!
[Pride and Prejudice], [Atonement] Director Joe Wright Confirmed to Be Adapted into a Film!
“We may live differently, but we are all stoners!”
“There is so much to say about this novel that I can’t even begin.”
Shin Hyeong-cheol (literary critic)
William Stoner, a farmer's son, goes to agricultural college to learn new farming methods at the behest of his parents.
I spend my days without the fantasy or romanticism that usually comes with entering college.
However, in his second year, a sonnet by Shakespeare in a required English Literature class changes his life completely.
“Shakespeare is speaking to you from three hundred years ago, Mr. Stoner.
“Can you hear his voice?” Stoner is left speechless in the classroom when asked by a middle-aged professor.
The novel contains Stoner's long journey to find his own answer to that question.
If you were to divide Stoner's life into the dichotomy of 'success' and 'failure', it would be closer to failure.
He fails to become a full professor at a university and fails to build a happy family.
But Stoner's life cannot be simply summarized as 'success' or 'failure'.
Stoner swallows his loneliness and bravely faces it, willingly accepting the one-person suffering that has been given to him in life.
This novel delicately and without exaggeration depicts our lives, which are filled with failures and ordinary despair, and recreates the texture most similar to real life.
Although it deals with extremely ordinary characters when viewed as a play, it maintains a body temperature that is almost identical to real life, leaving a belated feeling of emotion that comes only after closing the book.
The adage, 'Literature is life', is too common and obvious.
But there are no words that speak more eloquently about the value of literature than these words.
Instead of returning home to farm, Stoner becomes absorbed in literature and chooses to become an English literature student.
This novel begins by asking, "What is literature?" but ends with an answer to, "What is life?"
It's as if he's indirectly suggesting that to find answers about literature, we have no choice but to talk about life.
This may be the reason why many people, including famous writers such as Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, and Nick Hornby, have praised this novel as a 'novel of a lifetime'.
“You don’t have to worry so much.
As you live, things like that happen.
As time goes by, everything will work out.
“It’s not that important.”
_In the text
Those who brought this brilliant novel out of the old library
This book contains the original appearance they wanted to leave behind.
If you say, 'If the work is good, it will see the light of day,' many people will react with disapproval, calling it naive.
"Stoner" is a very powerful counter-example that can shout out to such people, "What are you talking about?"
When it was first published in 1965, only one publication covered the book.
Author John Williams also had little hope for the book's commercial viability.
In the end, the first edition of 2,000 copies failed to sell and went out of print the following year.
However, this book was circulated among discerning readers, graduate students, and professors.
Decades later, Edwin Frank, editor of the New York Review of Books, heard from the owner of the bookstore [Crawford Doyle] that there was a good book that had never seen the light of day.
He quickly obtained the book, read it, and then purchased the copyright.
Word of mouth spread that it was "the greatest novel you've never heard," and Stoner became a bestseller nearly 50 years after its publication.
There were many people who played a role in allowing this long-buried work to stand tall after the 2010s.
The small efforts and affection of these people—a few discerning readers who read this book and recommended it to their friends, the bookstore owner who recommended it to the editor, the critic who wrote a review, and the French novelist Anna Gabalda who insisted to the publisher that she really wanted to translate it—made the belief that good works somehow survive a reality.
This restored edition presents the book as they would have liked it to appear in the world.
The experience of encountering this great novel, long tucked away on a bookshelf, its fate unknown, will be a special gift to readers who love it and those who haven't yet discovered it.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Publication date: June 24, 2020
- Format: Hardcover book binding method guide
- Page count, weight, size: 396 pages | 534g | 140*210*26mm
- ISBN13: 9788925538297
- ISBN10: 8925538296
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