My Ántonia

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WILLA GATHER
MY ANTONIA
The American pioneer, returning to his country today, would find himself a stranger in a strange land. The cities of the plain have grown large and they have darkened the landscape. The values of an earlier time have been deeply eroded. During her lifetime, Willa Gather wrote with increasing anger against this loss, and she sought in her novels^to recover "the precious, the incommunicable past." In My Antonia, her famous portrait of a pioneer woman and very likely her best novel, she captured intact the strengths and passions of the early settlers, their spiritual attachment to the land they worked and came to love. These values inform what is both a vital novel of the American experience and a classic of world literature.
"Miss Gather held firmly to what she had found for herself, did her own work in her own way as all the others were doing each in his unique way, and did help greatly to save and reassert and illustrate the validity of certain great and... Tovább

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WILLA GATHER
MY ANTONIA
The American pioneer, returning to his country today, would find himself a stranger in a strange land. The cities of the plain have grown large and they have darkened the landscape. The values of an earlier time have been deeply eroded. During her lifetime, Willa Gather wrote with increasing anger against this loss, and she sought in her novels^to recover "the precious, the incommunicable past." In My Antonia, her famous portrait of a pioneer woman and very likely her best novel, she captured intact the strengths and passions of the early settlers, their spiritual attachment to the land they worked and came to love. These values inform what is both a vital novel of the American experience and a classic of world literature.
"Miss Gather held firmly to what she had found for herself, did her own work in her own way as all the others were doing each in his unique way, and did help greatly to save and reassert and illustrate the validity of certain great and dangerously threatened principles of art . . . She is a curiously immovable shape, monumental, virtue itself in her art and a symbol of virtue — like certain churches, in fact, or exemplary women, revered and neglected."
— Katherine Anne Porter
"The whole range of Gather's values, standards, tastes and prejudices, her tone, is that of an inherent aristocrat in an equalitarian order, of an agrarian writer in an industrial order, of a defender of the spiritual graces in the midst of an increasingly materialistic culture."
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