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S'està carregant… Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927 original; edició 1990)de Willa Cather (Autor)
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I rarely read a book twice and to read one three times is almost unheard of but this is one of the rare exceptions where that happened. I first read it long ago as a teenager at a time when I made frequent trips into New Mexico. Cather's description of the state and its history was so spot on and poignant that it instantly became one of my favorites and forever made the American Southwest for me a place of almost mythical beauty. This fictional biography of a real life person, Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy. Many people may shy away from this book because they suspect it to be a book about religion. Trust me, it isn't. Yes, the main characters are Catholic priests but that isn't what this book is about. It's about service to others, a gentle tale that tells the story of men who spent their entire lives enduring incredible hardships so that other people's lives may be valued. This story is as heartwarming to the soul as chicken soup is to the stomach. It is one of those books that leaves the reader saddened when they finish the last page because there is no more. I guess maybe I should plan another trip back to New Mexico. As with this book, it has been far too long between visits. This book is brilliant! How Ms. Cather could so vividly describe scenes, people, and their thoughts is extraordinary. In this book she takes the life of one man and very intuitively describes his past, his present, and the past and present for those people around him and his interactions with him. Set in the American Southwest in the 1850s to nearly 1890, she describes the challenging, but patient life of a French-born priest amidst the Mexicans and Indians to understand their ways and to convert them.
Each event in this book is concrete, yet symbolic, and opens into living myth. The reader is invited to contemplate the question: What is a life well lived? This question is asked in a story so fine it brings the old words “wisdom” and “beauty” to life again. Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorialsModern Library (191.1) A tot vent (248) Vintage Books (V-679) Contingut aLater Novels: A Lost Lady / The Professor's House / Death Comes for the Archbishop / Shadows on the Rock / Lucy Gayheart / Sapphira and the Slave Girl de Willa Cather Willa Cather - The Library of America Set Complete in 3 Volumes (1. Early Novels & Stories; 2. Stories, Poems and Other Writings; and 3. Later Novels) de Willa Cather (indirecte) Set of 3 Book of the Month Club (Death Comes for the Archbishop, My Ántonia, O Pioneers!) de Willa Cather ContéTé un estudiTé una guia d'estudi per a estudiantsPremisLlistes notables
Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic--almost mythic--story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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That is the basic story of Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather’s celebrated novel that provides a fictionalized account of the real-life exploits of Jean-Baptiste Lamy, the true first Archbishop of Santa Fe. In Cather’s spare and succinct prose, this is a tale covering events that transpired over a period of several decades, but it does so in an episodic fashion that makes the book feel more like a collection of interconnected short vignettes. What I found to be strangely absent in the writing, though, was a real sense of the religious fervor and faith that the two priests must have felt to undertake the audacious mission of establishing a new church in a hostile environment amongst people with a completely different spiritual orientation. On the other hand, where the novel really shines is in the author’s depiction of the New Mexican and Southwestern landscapes. There are countless passages scattered throughout the story that are simply stunning—breathtakingly beautiful, in fact. I suspect that it will be these descriptions of the natural world, rather than the details of Latour/Lamy’s accomplishments, that will stick with me the farther removed I become from having read the book. ( )