tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post6788521798693962307..comments2024-03-26T07:58:59.761+00:00Comments on I'll think of something later: Cather's midlife crisis novelsDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-77629501633248208242021-02-26T09:26:40.492+00:002021-02-26T09:26:40.492+00:00Hurrah! It was a revelation to me last year, thank...Hurrah! It was a revelation to me last year, thanks to ALex Ross in the first place, to find that she is one of the great novelists, and not just among Americans. Every journey she takes us on gives a vibrant sense of place (in My Antonia's case, of several places) - she is to American landscapes what Dickens is to London. I'm just finishing a late work, Shadows on the Rock, which paints old Quebec in so many ravishing colours. Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-22209034534062911262021-02-26T01:07:21.734+00:002021-02-26T01:07:21.734+00:00Thanks to your advocacy, I’ve realized how impover...Thanks to your advocacy, I’ve realized how impoverished I am when it comes to appreciation of Cather. I loved My Antonia when I read it long ago, but there I stopped. Just now I’ve taken up The Song of the Lark and am enjoying it immensely. Cather’s sense of place, alone, makes me wish I could be transported to the landscape she describes (if, indeed, it exists any more), and that is only the beginning of the marvels of the journey on which this novel takes us. I do wonder why, in school, we weren’t encouraged to explore more Cather.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15674930917585246294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-67054552099728996012021-02-16T12:32:39.440+00:002021-02-16T12:32:39.440+00:00I hope you're hooked and go on to read many mo...I hope you're hooked and go on to read many more...I just have the last three left.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-72684323433164615412021-02-16T11:31:01.315+00:002021-02-16T11:31:01.315+00:00Many thanks, David. I've actually gone for The...Many thanks, David. I've actually gone for The Professor's House. JohnGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-87919407741213261582021-02-16T09:13:58.660+00:002021-02-16T09:13:58.660+00:00It depends what aspect of Cather interests you mos...It depends what aspect of Cather interests you most. The Professor's House and Death Comes for the Archbishop are stylistically the most impressive. But with your interest in music, I'd start with The Song of the Lark, because its compendious nature covers so many of Cather's preoccupations, and for me it's one of the best books on the artist's calling - its heroine, Thea Kronborg, becomes a great Wagnerian soprano. Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-71893401618649122062021-02-16T08:39:51.078+00:002021-02-16T08:39:51.078+00:00Thank you for this wonderful advocacy, David. I...Thank you for this wonderful advocacy, David. I've never read any Cather. Would The Professor's House be a suitable point of departure do you think? JohnGnoreply@blogger.com