Willa Cather

Naissance 7 December 1873 · Décès 24 April 1947

Originaire de Gore, Virginia, United States · Nationalité : United States · Écrit de la fiction

Willa Siebert Cather était une romancière américaine qui a grandi dans le Nebraska. Elle est surtout connue pour ses évocations de la vie des pionniers dans les Grandes Plaines, dans des romans tels que *Les Pionniers* (*O Pioneers!*), *Ma Ántonia* et *Le Chant de l'alouette* (*The Song of the Lark*).

Citations

“We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it — for a little while.”
O Pioneers!, Part VEn anglais
“There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.”
My Antonia, Book IEn anglais
“What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose?”
The Song of the Lark, Part IVEn anglais
“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”
O Pioneers!, Part IIEn anglais
“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
My Antonia, Book VEn anglais