Death Comes for the Archbishop

Death comes for the archbishop is the title of a novel by Willa Cather. It appeared in 1927 in New York under the title Death Comes for the Archbishop, and was published in 1940 in Zurich in German language. Time magazine is one of the work of the 100 most important since 1923.

Content

The book is about two French priests who come mid-19th century as missionaries to New Mexico. One of them, Jean Marie Latour, takes over in 1851, the Vicariate of New Mexico (New Mexico ) to the capital, Santa Fe. This he would eventually head later as bishop and archbishop. The second priest is Father Joseph Vaillant, a swashbuckling and youthful priest. The journey of two priests from Europe, it leads through the desert landscapes that they are not used to.

The novel is mainly about the difficulties of missionary life and the encounter of Christian- occidental and Indian- Mexican culture. They learn the Indian religion and its myths, they encounter again and again in different forms. The focus, inter alia, the peoples of the Diné and Hopi.

Models

To the character of Bishop Latour inspired Willa Cather a statue in the Cathedral of Santa Fé, the Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy ( 1814-1888 ). Father Vaillant's character took Cather in 1925 from the book "The life of the Rev. Joseph P. Marchebeuf ", who was a friend of Archbishop Lamy.

Swell

  • Willa Cather: Death comes for the archbishop. Translated by Sigismund von Radecki. St. Benno -Verlag GmbH, Leipzig 1981. Afterword by Frank Ritter.
  • Willa Cather: Death asks the Archbishop. From the American translated by Irma Wehrli. Manesseplatz Verlag, Zurich 1998. Recompilation for the series Manesseplatz library of world literature. Afterword by Stefana Sabin. ISBN 978-3-7175-1920-1.

The first translation by Sigismund von Radecki appeared in 1936 in the journal " highlands ":

  • Willa Cather: Death comes for the archbishop. German by Sigismund von Radecki.

This translation was published in 1940 as:

  • Willa Cather: Death comes for the archbishop. / Death comes for the archbishop. 355 S. Zurich: Scientia 1940.

Copies of this published version:

  • Hamburg- Bielefeld -Stuttgart: special edition for fans of world literature, reader Community GmbH. (Pressure: Stuttgart: Kohl hammer ). undated
  • Stuttgart: Victoria Verlag o.J. (1952) ( Special Edition for the club of book lovers, Saarbrücken ).
  • Berlin: Ullstein No. 91 ( published by The Golden Fleece, Frankfurt). 1956 ( with an afterword by Luise Rinser ).
  • Einsiedeln, Zurich and Cologne: Benziger 1957.
  • Leipzig: St. Benno -Verlag, 1981 ( ed. by Frank Ritter ).
  • Bonn: Bonn book community o.J. (1957).
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