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Death Comes for the Archbishop sprang from Willa Cather's love for the land and cultures of the American Southwest. Published in 1927 to both praise and perplexity, it has since claimed for itself a major place in twentieth-century literature.
The narrative follows Bishop Jean Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant, friends since their childhood in France, as they organize the new Roman Catholic diocese of Santa Fe subsequent to the Mexican War. While seeking to revive the church and build a cathedral in the desert, the clerics, like their historical prototypes, Bishop Jean Laury and Father Joseph Machebeuf, face religious corruption, natural adversity, and the loneliness of living in a strange and unforgiving land.
The historical essay traces the artistic and spiritual development that led to its writing. The broad-ranging explanatory notes illuminate the elements of French, Mexican, Hispanic, and Native American cultures that meet in the course of the narrative, they also explain the part played by the land and its people - their history, religion, art, and languages.
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Fiction, Clergy, History, Missions, Hopi Indians, Navajo Indians, Catholic Church, New mexico, fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Large type books, Fiction, general, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, American literature, Clergé, Romans, nouvellesPlaces
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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Virago Modern Classics)
September 1, 2006, Virago Press
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Death comes for the archbishop
1999, University of Nebraska Press
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Death comes for the archbishop
1993, Modern Library
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Death comes for the archbishop
1971, Vintage Books
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0394716795 9780394716794
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 505-512).
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"One afternoon in the autumn of 1851 a solitary horseman, followed by a pack-mule, was pushing through an arid stretch of country somewhere in central New Mexico."
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In 1851 French Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are dispatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knows-- gently, although he must contend with the unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Over nearly 40 years, they leave converts and enemies, crosses, and occasionally ecstasy in their wake. But it takes a death for them to make their mark on the landscape forever.
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