Death Comes for the Archbishop

Willa Cather 's story about missionary pastor Jean Marie Latour and his faith in the wilderness of the southwest shows extra and emotional directness and deep artistry. When Latour arrived in New Mexico state in 1851, he found a vast desert area, a red hill and suffered American, Arroyo in accordance with the law, but Mexicans and Indian customs and beliefs For the past 40 years , Latour continued his efforts to spread his beliefs and build a cathedral rising in the local golden rock. The priest fights his own solitude

For the Archbishop, death shared the infinite, rugged beauty of the landscape of New Mexico's desert, mountain and canyon where its central action took place, and that landscape and people attracted to it are from the United States It was not recognized as a borders. The most poetic chronicle

Cather was a major American writer, and in 1923 he received the Pulitzer Prize in his novel "One of Myself". In 1928, Cathers followed the Archbishop's death. Archbishop's death included 100 best novels at the 20th century modern library and 100 British novels between 1923 and 2005. In the 1930's, however, the critic began to regard her as "a romantic and nostalgic writer who could not deal with the present". Critic like Granville Hicks condemned Cather that he had escaped the ideal without facing "modern life itself". In the hardships of the past sandstorms and the Great Depression, her works are considered to lack social significance.

The Archbishop's death was written one year before the "Rosicky Neighborhood" in 1927. In this novel, Cather turned to the landscape, myths and history of the southwestern part of the United States, and knit a plot story of French missionary Archbishop Lamy. I came to America in the mid-19th century. Unlike her early novel, it is thought to be one of the most exciting outcomes of Kaiser. The main street (1920) of Sinclair Lewis is located in the small town of Scandinavia in Minnesota in the early 1900s. This epoch-making novel known by many critics as representing the "riot from the village" as the most important literary work in the American literature is the materialism of a small town and the rigorous treatment of boredom is.