Death Comes for the Archbishop

Michael Dirda posted an article on this book on Willa Cather's "Happy Classics" magazine. And a gentle stimulation from the two friends of GR convinced me to give this author another opportunity. I have read "My Antonia" in the high school English lesson and have never fully recovered, so I am "trauma". I do not blame the teacher. I will not be forced to read it unless he gave us a list of "Great American Literature", and chose a book and write a paper about it. As a crusader

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 his attention to the landscape, myths and history of the southwest United States of America, knitting a French missionary archbishop Rammy plot story. 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.