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My Antonia de Willa Cather

My Antonia

Autor Willa Cather
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Găsim în My Ántonia un exemplu magistral de ficțiune istorică și regionalistă care subversează convențiile epopeii clasice de frontieră. În loc să se concentreze pe cucerirea violentă a pământului, Willa Cather alege să exploreze cucerirea spiritului și reziliența în fața izolării. Recomandăm acest volum nu doar ca pe o cronică a migrației, ci ca pe o meditație profundă asupra memoriei și a modului în care peisajul modelează identitatea umană. Textul este construit dintr-o perspectivă nostalgică, fiind narat de Jim Burden, care își amintește copilăria petrecută în Nebraska alături de Ántonia Shimerda, o imigrantă boemă a cărei forță vitală devine simbolul pionieratului american. Cititorul care a apreciat determinarea și independența personajului Alexandra Bergson din O Pioneers! va găsi aici o vibrație similară a spiritului feminin — însă My Ántonia oferă un context mult mai intim și o structură narativă mai nuanțată, axată pe maturizarea psihologică. Structura acestei ediții este remarcabilă prin bogăția contextului oferit. Dincolo de narațiunea principală, cuprinsul ne dezvăluie o secțiune amplă de anexe (Appendix A-F), care includ cronologii, interviuri și recenzii contemporane din 1918. Acestea permit o înțelegere profundă a modului în care opera a fost recepționată și a evoluției viziunii lui Cather. Față de The Song of the Lark, unde accentul cade pe dezvoltarea artistică, aici accentul este pus pe comuniunea cu pământul și pe legăturile umane indestructibile formate în condiții de privațiune. Este, fără îndoială, cea mai personală lucrare a autoarei, transformând experiența brută a preriei într-o proză de o frumusețe lirică rară.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781534926943
ISBN-10: 1534926941
Pagini: 146
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte se adresează cititorului care caută o literatură clasică densă, cu un puternic simț al locului. Câștigați o perspectivă autentică asupra vieții imigranților europeni în America secolului al XIX-lea, surprinsă fără exagerări sau distorsiuni. Este o lectură obligatorie pentru a înțelege spiritul american, oferind o experiență contemplativă despre trecerea timpului și valoarea prieteniei care supraviețuiește deceniilor.

Despre autor

Willa Sibert Cather (1873–1947) a fost o figură centrală a literaturii americane, recompensată cu Premiul Pulitzer în 1923 pentru romanul 'One of Ours'. Mutată în Nebraska la vârsta de nouă ani, Cather a transformat peisajul preriei și viețile imigranților europeni în nucleul operei sale. Recunoscută pentru trilogia 'Great Plains', ea a scris cu o sensibilitate aparte despre nostalgie, exil și lupta settlers-ilor de a găsi o comunitate într-un spațiu geografic vast și adesea ostil. Opera sa rămâne un etalon pentru modul în care mediul fizic interacționează cu psihologia umană.

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My Antonia by Willa Cather.....

Classic Literature

Orphaned Jim Burden rides the trains from Virginia to Black Hawk, Nebraska, where he will live with his paternal grandparents. Jake, a farmhand from Virginia, rides with the 10-year-old boy. On the same train, headed to the same destination, is the Shimerda family from Bohemia. Jim lives with his grandparents in the home they have built, helping as he can with chores to ease the burden on the others. The home has the dining room and kitchen downstairs, like a basement, with small windows at the top of the walls, an arrangement quite different from Jim's home in Virginia. The sleeping quarters and parlor are at ground level. The Shimerda family paid for a homestead which proves to have no home on it, just a cave in the earth, and not much of the land broken for cultivation. The two families are nearest neighbors to each other in a sparsely settled land. Antonia, the elder daughter in the Shimerda family, is a few years older than young Jim. The two are friends from the start, helped by Mrs. Shimerda asking that Jim teach both her daughters to read English. Antonia helps Mrs. Burden in her kitchen when she visits, learning more about cooking and housekeeping. The first year is extremely difficult for the Shimerda family, without a proper house in the winter. Mr. Shimerda comes to thank the Burdens for the Christmas gifts given to them, and has a peaceful day with them, sharing a meal and the parts of a Christian tradition that Protestant Mr. Burden and Catholic Mr. Shimerda respect. He did not want to move from Bohemia, where he had a skilled trade, a home and friends with whom he could play his violin. His wife is sure life will be better for her children in America.

Recenzii

She is undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's greatest American writers
In fact it's one of the warmest, most quietly rousing books that I know; a clear-eyed salute to the resilience of the human spirit and the innate hardiness of the immigrants who came across the ocean to start afresh in the golden west
Willa Cather was a wordsmith of enormous talent
Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic
Her voice, laconical and richly sensuous, sings out with a note of unequivocal love for the people she is setting down on the page

Notă biografică

WILLA CATHER (1873–1948) was born in Winchester, Virginia. Her family moved to Nebraska before she was ten. During her teens she learned both Latin and Greek; she graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1895. She then taught high school, worked for the Pittsburgh Leader, and spent a good deal of time traveling. The Troll Garden (1905) was her first volume of short stories, and it was followed by her appointment as associate editor of McClure’s magazine. She continued in this position for six years, but resigned in 1912 because she felt that the work for the magazine was interfering with her writing. Alexander’s Bridge, a short novel set in Boston, was published in the same year. In O Pioneers! (1913), she turned to her greatest subject, immigrant life on the Nebraska prairies, and established herself as a major American novelist. O Pioneers! was followed by more novels, including My Ántonia (1918), The Professor’s House (1922), and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927). Cather lived in New York for many years, and she was a familiar figure in intellectual and literary circles. The Old Beauty and Others, a collection of short stories, was published posthumously.

MARILYN SIDES is the author of a collection of short stories, The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife and Other Tales, and of a novel, The Genius of Affection. She teaches literature and fiction writing at Wellesley College.

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'As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains...And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.'My Antonia (1918) depicts the pioneering period of European settlement on the tall-grass prairie of the American midwest, with its beautiful yet terrifying landscape, rich ethnic mix of immigrants and native-born Americans, and communities who share life's joys and sorrows. Jim Burden recounts his memories of Antonia Shimerda, whose family settle in Nebraska from Bohemia. Together they share childhoods spent in a new world. Jim leaves the prairie for college and a career in the east, while Antonia devotes herself to her large family and productive farm. Her story is that of the land itself, a moving portrait of endurance and strength.Described on publication as 'one of the best [novels] that any American has ever done', My Antonia paradoxically took Cather out of the rank of provincial novelists as the same time that it celebrated the provinces, and mythologized a period of American history that had to be lost before its value could be understood. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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My Antonia evokes the Nebraska prairie life of Willa Cather's childhood, and commemorates the spirit and courage of immigrant pioneers in America. One of Cather's earliest novels, written in 1918, it is the story of Antonia Shimerda, who arrives on the Nebraska frontier as part of a family of Bohemian emigrants. Her story is told through the eyes of Jim Burden, a neighbor who will befriend Antonia, teach her English, and follow the remarkable story of her life.
Working in the fields of waving grass and tall corn that dot the Great Plains, Antonia forges the durable spirit that will carry her through the challenges she faces when she moves to the city. But only when she returns to the prairie does she recover her strength and regain a sense of purpose in life. In the quiet, probing depth of Willa Cather's art, Antonia's story becomes a mobbing elegy to those whose persistence and strength helped build the American frontier.
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