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"Situada en una pequen?a localidad de Nebraska a finales del siglo XIX, Pioneros (1913) relata una historia de inmigracio?n y supervivencia cuya figura central es Alexandra, una valiente joven que, a la muerte de su padre, se hace cargo de la familia y que, con su teso?n, inteligencia y trabajo, consigue sacar adelante sus tierras desafiando las convenciones sociales sobre el papel de la mujer. Los colonos de Willa Cather, entre los que ella misma vivio?, son emigrantes procedentes de todos los rincones de Europa, familias que luchan contra la adversidad en una tierra salvaje y un clima extremado, en su mayori?a artesanos que aprenden a cultivar la tierra fracasando una y otra vez. Aqui?, como en otras novelas de la autora, son sobre todo las mujeres la fuerza vital e integradora que hace avanzar a toda la comunidad.Gracias a su capacidad para expresar lo colectivo a trave?s de lo individual, Pioneros constituye una evocacio?n de un pai?s en construccio?n, de una sociedad que, trabajosamente, va echando rai?ces" --provided by Amazon.… (más)
DarthFisticuffs: Both are explorations of the lives of people who have dedicated themselves to the land, and are generational sagas of the waves of events and emotions they have to navigate, and the morals that guide them through.
Situada en una pequeña localidad de Nebraska a finales del siglo XIX, relata una historia de inmigración y supervivencia cuya figura central es Alexandra, una valiente joven, que a la muerte de su padre, se hace cargo de la familia y consigue sacar adelante sus tierras desafiando las convenciones sociales sobre el papel de la mujer. ( )
Situada en una pequeña localidad de Nebraska a finales del siglo xix, Pioneros relata una historia de inmigración y supervivencia cuya figura central es Alexandra, una valiente joven que, a la muerte de su padre, se hace cargo de la familia y que, con su tesón, su inteligencia y su trabajo, consigue sacar adelante sus tierras desafiando las convenciones sociales sobre el papel de la mujer. Los colonos de Willa Cather, entre los que ella misma vivió, son emigrantes procedentes de todos los rincones de Europa, familias que luchan contra la adversidad en una tierra salvaje y un clima extremado, en su mayoría artesanos que aprenden a cultivar la tierra a través de la amarga experiencia del fracaso. ( )
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Prairie Spring
Evening and the flat land, Rich and sombre and always silent; The miles of fresh-plowed soil, Heavy and black, full of strength and harshness; The growing wheat, the growing weeds, The toiling horses, the tired men; The long empty roads, Sullen fires of sunset, fading, The eternal, unresponsive sky. Against all this, Youth, Flaming like the wild roses, Singing like the larks over the plowed fields, Flashing like a star out of the twilight; Youth with its insupportable sweetness, Its fierce necessity, Its sharp desire, Singing and singing, Out of the lips of silence, Out of the earthy dusk.
Dedicatoria
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To the memory of Sarah Orne Jewett in whose beautiful and delicate work there is the perfection that endures
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One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. A mist of fine snowflakes was curling and eddying about the cluster of low drab buildings huddled on the gray prairie, under a gray sky. The dwelling-houses were set about haphazard on the tough prairie sod; some of them looked as if they had been moved in overnight, and others as if they were straying off by themselves, headed straight for the open plain. None of them had any appearance of permanence, and the howling wind blew under them as well as over them. The main street was a deeply rutted road, now frozen hard, which ran from the squat red railway station and the grain “elevator” at the north end of the town to the lumber yard and the horse pond at the south end. On either side of this road straggled two uneven rows of wooden buildings; the general merchandise stores, the two banks, the drug store, the feed store, the saloon, the post-office. The board sidewalks were gray with trampled snow, but at two o’clock in the afternoon the shopkeepers, having come back from dinner, were keeping well behind their frosty windows. The children were all in school, and there was nobody abroad in the streets but a few rough-looking countrymen in coarse overcoats, with their long caps pulled down to their noses. Some of them had brought their wives to town, and now and then a red or a plaid shawl flashed out of one store into the shelter of another. At the hitch-bars along the street a few heavy work-horses, harnessed to farm wagons, shivered under their blankets. About the station everything was quiet, for there would not be another train in until night.
Citas
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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.
Those fields, colored by various grain! - Mickiewicz
When the road began to climb the first long swells of the Divide, Alexandra hummed an old Swedish hymn, and Emil wondered why his sister looked so happy. Her face was so radiant that he felt shy about asking her. For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning. It seemed beautiful to her, rich and strong and glorious. Her eyes drank in the breadth of it, until her tears blinded her. Then the Genius of the Divide, the great, free spirit which breathes across it, must have bent lower than it ever bent to a human will before. The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
But that, as Emil himself had more than once reflected, was Alexandra's blind side, and her life had not been of the kind to sharpen her vision. Her training had all been toward the end of making her proficient in what she had undertaken to do. Her personal life, her own realization of herself, was almost a subconscious existence; like an underground river that came to the surface only here and there, at intervals months apart, and then sank again to flow on under her own fields. Nevertheless, the underground stream was there, and it was because she had so much personality to put into her enterprises and succeeded in putting it into them so completely, that her affairs prospered better than those of her neighbors.
Marie stole slowly, flutteringly, along the path, like a white night-moth out of the fields. The years seemed to stretch before her like the land; spring, summer, autumn, winter, spring; always the same patient fields, the patient little trees, the patient lives; always the same yearnings, the same pulling at the chain - until the instinct to live had torn itself and bled and weakened for the last time, until the chain secured a dead woman,who might cautiously be released.
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They went into the house together, leaving the Divide behind them, under the evening star. Fortunate country, that is one day to receive hearts like Alexandra’s into its bosom, to give them out again in the yellow wheat, in the rustling corn, in the shining eyes of youth!
"Situada en una pequen?a localidad de Nebraska a finales del siglo XIX, Pioneros (1913) relata una historia de inmigracio?n y supervivencia cuya figura central es Alexandra, una valiente joven que, a la muerte de su padre, se hace cargo de la familia y que, con su teso?n, inteligencia y trabajo, consigue sacar adelante sus tierras desafiando las convenciones sociales sobre el papel de la mujer. Los colonos de Willa Cather, entre los que ella misma vivio?, son emigrantes procedentes de todos los rincones de Europa, familias que luchan contra la adversidad en una tierra salvaje y un clima extremado, en su mayori?a artesanos que aprenden a cultivar la tierra fracasando una y otra vez. Aqui?, como en otras novelas de la autora, son sobre todo las mujeres la fuerza vital e integradora que hace avanzar a toda la comunidad.Gracias a su capacidad para expresar lo colectivo a trave?s de lo individual, Pioneros constituye una evocacio?n de un pai?s en construccio?n, de una sociedad que, trabajosamente, va echando rai?ces" --provided by Amazon.
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