📖 Death Comes for the Archbishop

Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic--almost mythic--story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows-gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.

1851 年,让·玛丽·拉图尔神父来到新墨西哥州担任宗座代牧。 他发现的是一片广阔的 红山和曲折的阿罗约山脉,在法律上是美国人,但在习俗和信仰上是墨西哥和印度人。 在接下来的近四十年里,拉图尔以他所知道的唯一方式传播他的信仰——温柔地,一 直在与无情的风景、被遗弃、有时公开叛逆的牧师以及他自己的孤独作斗争。 在这些 事件中,凯瑟给了我们一个不可磨灭的生命愿景,在一个时间本身似乎暂停的地方展 开。 推荐理由:这是一部优秀的历史小说,讲述了古老的西班牙使团,土著反抗西班牙统治 的起义,瓜达卢佩圣母的故事。虽然这本书在时间和地点方面有一个特定的背景,人物 也有宗教职业,但它的奉献、力量和友谊的主题超越了19世纪50年代的新墨西哥边境 和天主教神父。小说的细节很有趣,也有效地表达了主题。