Saphira, sa fille et l'esclave

Willa Cather - Collection Rivages - Littérature étrangère

272 pages, parution le 20/05/2015

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Résumé

Depuis 1992, Rivages a entrepris de publier les œuvres complètes de Willa Cather (1876-1947), grande dame de la littérature honorée par le prix Pulitzer en 1922 et auteur du célèbre Mon Ántonia. Saphira, dernier roman de Willa Cather paru en 1940 est traduit pour la première fois en français : superbe portrait de l'Amérique avant la guerre de Sécession, le roman évoque la question de la ségrégation raciale au sein d'une famille, partagée entre les traditions esclavagistes et le progressisme abolitionniste.

L'auteur - Willa Cather

Willa Cather (1873 -1947) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. Despite this critical opposition to her work, Cather remained a popular writer whose novels and short story collections continued to sell well. In 1931 Shadows on the Rock was the most widely read novel in the US, and Lucy Gayheart became a bestseller in 1935. Although Cather began her writing career as a journalist, she made a distinction between journalism, which she saw as being primarily informative, and literature, which she saw as an art form. Cather's work is often marked by its nostalgic tone, her subject matter and themes drawn from memories of her early years on the American plains.

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Payot et Rivages
Auteur(s)	Willa Cather
Collection	Rivages - Littérature étrangère
Parution	20/05/2015
Nb. de pages	272
Format	14 x 20.6
Couverture	Broché
Poids	326g
EAN13	9782743632601