Willa Cather Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) “The Novel Demeuble” (1922), 版權到期......THE SONG OF THE LARK. “Chasing Bright Medusas,”

Others might interpret her life’s journey differently, but a portrait this succinct relies on such sharp generalizations. Brevity exposes a writer’s attitudes; selection and emphasis — I’m thinking here especially of Willa Cather’s fiction — are everything. In a famous 1922 essay, “The Novel Démeublé,” she wrote: “Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or the deed.”
Cather stated her credo of fiction most forcefully in her essay “The Novel Demeuble” (1922), meaning “The Unfurnished Novel.” The title refers to her idea that the best fiction does not merely “catalogue” the furniture of life—physical things, processes, and sensations—but selects such details carefully to “present [ ...
「無論是在紙頁上感受到的、沒有具體命名的東西，人們都可能會說，它就是被創造出來的。 這是無法解釋的存在，是未命名之物的存在，是耳朵推測出但未被聽到的泛音，是言語情緒，是事實、事物或行為的情感光環。”

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A Swift, Opinionated Portrait of Willa Cather (She Would Have Approved)

“Chasing Bright Medusas,” a new biography by Benjamin Taylor, aims not to uncover new facts but to provide a concise introduction to the novelist.


Willa Cather “believed in luck, particularly her own, and believed in the luck-making power of desire,” Benjamin Taylor writes in his biography of the writer. “She had a destiny, devoutly believed in; she swept aside impediments; her goals were vividly before her.”Credit...Getty Images, via Bettmann Archive
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有偉大的愛，就永遠有奇蹟。Where there is great love, there are always mircles.


Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)


popular Death Comes for the Archbishop in 1927, selling 86,500 copies in just two years,[80] and which has been included on the Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the twentieth century.[

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Whisking through the decades, Taylor propels us from Cather’s birth in Northern Virginia to her family’s move in 1882, when she was 9, to rural Nebraska. From there, it’s on to the town of Red Cloud and through her first years as a wildly talented college student, “acting and dressing more like a boy than a girl, cropping her hair short, going to class in starched white shirts and suspenders, and affecting a low voice,” at the then new University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

Willa Cather

Cather in 1936
Born Wilella Sibert Cather
December 7, 1873
Gore, Virginia, U.S.
Died April 24, 1947 (aged 73)
New York City, U.S.
Resting place Jaffrey, New Hampshire, U.S.
Occupation Novelist
Period 1905–1947







"Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing—desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little."
—from THE SONG OF THE LARK (1915) by Willa Cather
In this powerful portrait of the self-making of an artist, Willa Cather created one of her most extraordinary heroines. Thea Kronborg, a minister’s daughter in a provincial Colorado town, seems destined from childhood for a place in the wider world. But as her path to the world stage leads her ever farther from the humble town she can’t forget and from the man she can’t afford to love, Thea learns that her exceptional musical talent and fierce ambition are not enough. It is in the solitude of a tiny rock chamber high in the side of an Arizona cliff–“a cleft in the heart of the world”–that Thea comes face to face with her own dreams and desires, stripped clean by the haunting purity of the ruined cliff dwellings and inspired by the whisperings of their ancient dust. Here she finds the courage to seize her future and to use her gifts to catch “the shining, elusive element that is life itself–life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.” In prose as shimmering and piercingly true as the light in a desert canyon, Cather takes us into the heart of a woman coming to know her deepest self. READ more here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/the-song-of-the-lark-…/







除了Agatha Christie之外，其他作者的"全集"之漢一，都可考慮......












New Life for Old Classics as Their Copyrights Run Out
Works by Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, D.H. Lawrence, Agatha Christie and Robert Frost are entering the public domain on Jan. 1. And that’s just the first wave.


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