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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Lucy Gayheart (1935) es una de las últimas novelas de Willa Cather, inédita hasta ahora en español. En ella sus grandes temas –la oposición entre valores rústicos y urbanos, la tragedia que acecha a la inocencia, el arte como conflictiva forma de elevación– se conjugan en una depurada historia de amor escrita con el sello de la madurez. La heroína, una joven sensible e impulsiva a quien su padre ha dotado de una exquisita educación musical, tiene la oportunidad de acompañar al piano a un famoso barítono, un hombre mucho mayor que ella y algo cansado de la vida, pero con el que establecerá una intensa relación que la lleva a renunciar al joven que ha sido su pretendiente desde la infancia. Willa Cather's "My Antonia" is one of my favorite pieces of literature by a female writer, so I occasionally pick up some of her other works. This one reminded me a lot of Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome," with its wistful main character and doomed romance. And I sympathized with Lucy's sister Pauline when she described the "parlour cat and the kitchen cat." 50. Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather published: 1935 format: 195-page Vintage Classic paperback acquired: June read: Sep 8 – Oct 1 time reading: 5 hr 2 min, 1.6 min/page rating: 4½ locations: early 20th century Nebraska and Chicago about the author born near Winchester, VA, later raised in Red Cloud, NE. December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947 I'm running out of Cathers. I was worried based the previous book, [Shadows on the Rock] and the contemporary criticism of conservativism in her later novels that she was running low at the end. Then here she immediately generates a wonderful character in Lucy Gayheart to open this novel. Lucy‘s vitality comes off the page in this prose. Her aura, her existence - it‘s beautiful and attractive. Maybe sexy. And there is a Chekhov element as we open not with Lucy exactly, but with memories and with the failure of photographs to capture her living energy, her “gentle glow”, a “bird flying home”. Cather has cast her magic. Fate seems to play a role. Cather lays out this way: In the darkening sky she had seen the first star come out; it brought her heart into her throat. That point of silver light spoke to her like a signal, released another kind of life and feeling which did not belong here. It overpowered her. With a mere thought she had reached that star and it had answered, recognition had flashed between. Something knew then, in the unknowing waste: something had always known, forever! That joy of saluting what is far above one was an eternal thing, not merely something that had happened to her in ignorance and her foolish heart. The novel takes us from small town Nebraska pettiness to a mix of Chicago's anonymity and its high music culture in earlies days of the 20th century. I really enjoyed spending time with Lucy and worried about the ominous implications of fate. It's tightly knit, clean novel that offers its unique little literary spark, even if it revisits some well tread Cather themes. 2020 https://www.librarything.com/topic/322920#7285509 nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiVirago Modern Classics (182) È contenuto inLater Novels: A Lost Lady / The Professor's House / Death Comes for the Archbishop / Shadows on the Rock / Lucy Gayheart / Sapphira and the Slave Girl di Willa Cather
In this haunting 1935 novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of My Ántonia performs crystalline variations on the themes that preoccupy her greatest fiction: the impermanence of innocence, the opposition between prairie and city, provincial American values and world culture, and the grandeur, elation, and heartache that await a gifted young woman who leaves her small Nebraska town to pursue a life in art. At the age of eighteen, Lucy Gayheart heads for Chicago to study music. She is beautiful and impressionable and ardent, and these qualities attract the attention of Clement Sebastian, an aging but charismatic singer who exercises all the tragic, sinister fascination of a man who has renounced life only to turn back to seize it one last time. Out of their doomed love affair--and Lucy's fatal estrangement from her origins--Willa Cather creates a novel that is as achingly lovely as a Schubert sonata. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Part of it reminded me of THE AWAKENING by Kate Chopin, particularly this: "Since then she had changed so much in her thoughts, in her ways, even in her looks, that she might wonder she knew herself - except that the changes were all in the direction of becoming more and more herself."
Why she had to lie to her old beau, implying something had happened that hadn't - and really why she couldn't marry him in the first place: "She had tried to tell him the truth about a feeling; but a feeling meant nothing to him, he had to be clubbed by a situation." I love that, "clubbed by a situation." ( )