Cather Willa
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" Nul classique de la littérature américaine n'est aussi vrai, chaleureux et humain." H.L Mencken
Jeune immigrée venue de Bohême avec sa soeur et ses parents, Antonia a grandi à Black Hawk, dans le Nebraska. Mais, au lieu de la belle ferme blanche de leurs rêves, c'est une pauvre maison en terre, battue par les vents et cernée de terres ingrates, qui leur a tenu lieu de foyer.
Existence rude et pourtant joyeuse, grâce à l'affection fraternelle de Jim Burden, un orphelin de Virginie installé avec ses grands-parents dans la ferme voisine. C'est lui qui lui apprend l'anglais, l'aide à surmonter le suicide de son père. Lui encore qui la tirera d'un très mauvais pas lorsqu'elle trouvera en ville une place de gouvernante...
Des années plus tard, désormais avocat pour une grande compagnie ferroviaire, Jim se rappelle avec émotion leur jeunesse aventureuse et entreprend de ressusciter leur passé.
La jeune fille qu'il a connue, devenue femme, devient dans son regard une héroïne de la conquête de l'Ouest.
Le chef-d'oeuvre de Willa Cather déploie les vastes horizons du Midwest en une fresque où souffle l'esprit des pionniers. -
Brilliantly intelligent, rich and stylish Myra is a living legend in her hometown.
But she sends shockwaves through the community when she rejects her riches and elopes with hard-up Oswald Henshawe.
When Nellie, a long-time acquaintance of Myra's, next sees the couple, they are living a glamorously poor Bohemian life in post-Revolution Paris, with singers, actors, poets and artists in and out of their apartment.
But, when elegant poverty becomes real poverty in a tumbledown hotel, Myra realises the identity of her 'Mortal Enemy'.
This heart-rending study of the blessings and curses of love is perfect for fans of Thomas Hardy's 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' and 'Middlemarch' by George Eliot.
Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer best known for her novels of life on the Great Plains of the United States.
After a time as a magazine writer and editor, then as an English teacher, Cather began to publish collections of her poetry and short stories.
Her first novel, 'Alexander's Bridge', was published in 1912, followed by her 'Prairie Trilogy' - 'O Pioneers!', 'The Song of the Lark' and 'My Antonia'.
Numerous other novels followed as Cather became one of the US's most celebrated authors.
In 1923 she won the Pulitzer Prize for her First World War-based novel, 'One of Ours'. -
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Claude Wheeler is the son of a successful Nebraskan farmer and a very devout mother. He's sent to a private religious college because his mother feels it's safer, but he yearns for State college where he might be able expand his knowledge of the real world. Claude doesn't feel comfortable in any situation, and almost every step he takes is a wrong one. While he's struggling to find his way in a questionable marriage, the U.S. decides to enter World War I, and Claude enlists. He's commissioned as a lieutenant, and he and his outfit are deployed to France in the waning months of the war. There Claude finds the purpose he's been missing his whole life.
One of Ours is Cather's first novel following the completion of her Prairie Trilogy, which she finished before the U.S. had entered the war. Cather's cousin Grosvenor had grown up on the farm next to hers, had many of the traits she gave to Claude, and, like her protagonist, went with the Army to France towards the end of the war. After the war was over, she felt compelled to write something different than the novels she had become known for, saying that this one "stood between me and anything else." Although today it's not considered her best work, the novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1923. -
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Written in the style of a memoir, My Ántonia chronicles Jim Burden's friendship with the daughter of a Czech immigrant family. Recently orphaned, he moves west to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. Riding the same train is the Shimerda family, who are also on their way to settle in the area. The Shimerdas have a difficult life as pioneers: living in a sod house, working the fields, and running out of food in the winter. Jim soon becomes smitten with Ántonia, the eldest daughter, as they grow up and explore the landscape around them together. Through his eyes, we see both how she shapes the land around her and is shaped by the rigors of poverty.
Similarly to Jim, Willa Cather spent her early years in Nebraska but most of her adult life in Eastern cities. She pays homage to her homeland with her Prairie Trilogy of novels: O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. They are tinged with her characteristic straightforward language, reverence for nature, and nostalgia, even as she acknowledges the hardships of the past.
Published in 1918 to great enthusiasm, My Ántonia is considered one of Cather's finest works and a defining point in her identity as a writer. -
Couleurs locales
George Washington Cable, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Joel Chandler Harris, Bret
- Seghers (réédition numérique fenixx)
- Vent d'ouest
- 15 February 2019
- 9782232138133
Eh bien, il va falloir se faire une raison : l'Américain-type, ça n'existe pas ! Tant pis pour la belle ordonnance des idées toutes faites ; d'un Américain à l'autre, le caractère, les moeurs, la stature même diffèrent. Bien sûr il existe, chez tous les habitants du Nouveau Monde, certains éléments qui constituent le caractère national, mais ces éléments sont amalgamés diversement selon les racines de l'individu, l'ancienneté de sa migration, selon surtout qu'il habite le vieux Nord-Est, le Sud, l'Ouest ou le Middle West. C'est ce qui ressort des treize nouvelles ici réunies, Toutes, sauf deux, ont été écrites pendant les décennies qui ont suivi la guerre de Sécession, en une période où le pays avait besoin de redécouvrir son identité, de concilier les mirages du passé et les réalités du présent... A ce moment-là plus que jamais, la littérature régionale, fondée sur des valeurs intactes, sûres, facilement reconnaissables, avait un rôle à jouer. Sans doute ces récits reflètent-ils leur époque, mais on y sent percer déjà une littérature de fiction plus complexe et plus élaborée : celle de l'Amérique contemporaine, qui a su si bien assimiler, pour des buts qui lui sont propres, accents régionaux et couleurs locales.
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Les derniers bateaux ont levé les voiles et disparu de l'horizon. Pas un navire ne reviendra avant huit mois. De octobre à juillet, les colons seront seuls sur ce rocher éloigné de l'Europe, cette terre nouvelle appelée Québec.
Pour la plupart, le Québec est synonyme d'exil, d'hiver rude, de forêts vierges et de nature sauvage. Mais pour Cécile Auclair, une fillette de douze ans arrivée au Canada depuis son plus jeune âge, ce rocher grisâtre et isolé est sa maison et son unique raison d'être.
Au fil des pages, Cécile prouve que le courage et la dévotion sont à l'origine des plus grandes nations. À travers son histoire, c'est celle du Québec du XVIIe siècle que l'on découvre. Willa Cather restitue la fondation d'un pays aux paysages grandioses. Le livre a remporté le Prix Femina américain.
Willa Cather (1873-1947) est une romancière américaine célèbre pour son roman « Mon Ántonia », et « L'Un des nôtres » qui lui vaudra le prix Pulitzer. Destinée à devenir médecin, son succès lié à un essai sur Thomas Carlyle la pousse à opter pour un diplôme de littérature anglaise. Nombre de ses romans ont pour cadre les grandes plaines des États-Unis lors de la conquête de l'Ouest. William Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis et Henry Louis Mencken la considéraient comme une des plus grandes autrices de son temps, et digne du prix Nobel de littérature. -
Myra Driscoll e il marito Oswald Henshawe fanno ritorno nella natia Parthia, Illinois. La loro storia d'amore è ancora sulle bocche di tutti: Myra, infatti, ha rinunciato ad una cospicua eredità solo per fuggire insieme ad Oswald, sposandolo in gran segreto. Ora, a distanza di anni, Myra inizia a chiedersi quale sia stato, a conti fatti, il valore di quel gesto: emanciparsi dalle opprimenti prospettive famigliari, assaporando la vita come un'avventura, l'ha portata ad una relazione ordinaria, ad una felicità che non ha assolutamente niente di nobile o di eccezionale. In questo romanzo dai contorni drammatici, Willa Cather ci offre uno spaccato della monotona vita di provincia, riflettendo al contempo sulle illusorie velleità giovanili, che spingono una persona a scelte provocatorie che nascondono, forse, solo l'intrinseca impossibilità di conoscere sé stessi... Da cosa si fugge, infatti, se non dalla propria incapacità di essere felici?
Wilella Sibert Cather (1873-1947) nasce nei dintorni di Winchester (Virginia) da una famiglia di origini gallesi. Ancora bambina, si trasferisce in Nebraska, dove compie i suoi studi, e poi a Pittsburgh. Nel 1906, infine, si stabilisce a New York, che rimarrà da allora in poi la sua città d'elezione. Per i successivi quarant'anni vi abiterà e vi scriverà, condividendo vita e lavoro con Edith Lewis, editor e copywriter di successo. Willa Cather è considerata una delle voci più autorevoli della letteratura americana del Novecento: narratrice impeccabile di quella Frontiera che rappresentava allora il motore - economico e morale - di una nazione in rapida crescita. L'immigrazione, la vita nelle Grandi Pianure e le discrepanze sociali sono da lei raccontate con piglio intimista, secondo stilemi introspettivi che risentono della coeva letteratura modernista europea. Fra le sue opere più famose, si possono citare "O Pioneers!", "The Song of the Lark" e "Shadows on the Rock". -
When Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machebeuf accept a commission to establish a Catholic diocese in New Mexico, they know they are in for a few trials.
'Death Comes for the Archbishop' is an enchanting story that is part travelogue and part adventure, with flashes of the Wild West thrown in, as the territory the main characters get to explore is pretty wild, rugged, and challenging.
This evocative novel sweeps across New Mexico, dealing with religion, the ill-treatment of native people, death and hypocrisy.
This book is ideal for fans of Graham Greene's 'The Power and the Glory' and of Cormac McCarthy.
Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer best known for her novels of life on the Great Plains of the United States. After time as a magazine writer and editor, then as an English teacher, Cather began to publish collections of her poetry and short stories.
Her first novel, 'Alexander's Bridge', was published in 1912, followed by her 'Prairie Trilogy' - 'O Pioneers!', 'The Song of the Lark' and 'My Antonia'. Numerous other novels followed as Cather became on of the US's most celebrated authors.
In 1923 she won the Pulitzer Prize for her First World War-based novel, 'One of Ours'. -
`One of Ours' is Willa Cather's Pulitzer prize-winning story about life on the American frontier. The country teeters on the brink of World War I and Claude Wheeler finds himself a conflicted man. The son of a successful farmer, Wheeler is unhappy, despite a comfortable life and guaranteed fortune.
A pious mother, demanding father and loveless marriage push the young idealist to a new and bloodier frontier. As America enters the war, Claude Wheeler is about to find what he's been searching for all his life.
Willa Cather's acclaimed novel is an examination of the changing American frontier and the making of a soldier.
Willa Cather (1873-1947), was an American Pulitzer prize-winning writer who won acclaim for her novels that captured the American pioneer experience. Her books include `O Pioneers!' (1913), `The Song of the Lark' (1915), `My Ántonia' (1918) and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) which was an instant critical success.
In 1923, Cather gained widespread international acclaim when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for `One of Ours', a novel set during World War I. Willa Cather was granted honorary degrees by Princeton, Berkeley and Yale and in 1931 she was honoured with the cover of 'Time Magazine'. The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her a gold medal for fiction in 1944. -
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`A Lost Lady' is Willa Cather's brilliant depiction of the decline of the American pioneer spirit and the bleakness of frontier life. In it, socialite Marrian Forrester lives with her husband, the ageing industrial magnate Captain Forrester, in the small town of Sweet Water.
To the young, adoring narrator Niel Herbert, she is both bewitching and beautiful. The very definition of a lady. But Marrian Forrester is not what she seems and sparked by the death of her husband; her social decline lays bare her contradictions to the town.
Published in 1923, Cather's revered novel is an elegy to the pioneer west. The writer F. Scott Fitzgerald acknowledged its influence on his famous work `The Great Gatsby' and the character of Daisy Buchanan in particular.
Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer who won acclaim for her novels that captured the American pioneer experience. Her books include `O Pioneers!' (1913), `The Song of the Lark' (1915), `My Ántonia' (1918) and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) which was an instant critical success.
In 1923, Cather gained widespread international recognition when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for `One of Ours', a novel set during World War I.
Willa Cather was granted honorary degrees by Princeton, Berkeley and Yale and in 1931 she graced the cover of Time Magazine. The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her a gold medal for fiction in 1944.
