O Pioneers!

O pioneers! is a novel by Willa Cather (1876-1947), who in 1913 published.

Content

The novel depicts the plight of immigrant families of the first generation in the late 19th century in the American prairie of Nebraska. Main character is Alexandra Bergson, the members of Swedish immigrants. After the death of her father and during a severe drought that has ravaged the Midwest, she is the only one of her siblings who does not succumb to the temptation to give up their property and move to the city. She even borrows and buys added land whose value increases after the end of the drought. After a few hard years she has transformed the unruly prairie into a thriving country. However, they must first sacrifice their private love for Carl Lindstrom love of native soil. You will always be lonely and has in the end only her Czech friend Marie Shabata and her younger brother Emil, to whom they felt close. The married Marie and Emil fall in love. Marie's husband, the two shoots, she's all alone. Finally, Alexandra and Carl find the age still another, as the childhood friend returns, and the two marry.

Appreciation

O pioneers! is the first novel Willa Cather, who grapples with the problem of settler life in America. The title was taken from a poem by Walt Whitman ( Pioneers! O pioneers! ) Cather tells of the strength and endurance of those first settlers who have made it possible to take the vast land in possession. The figure of Alexandra is her love for this earth, unlike Marie, whose passionate private feelings they fall into misfortune, while the self-sacrificing and self-denying love Alexandra's at the end bears fruit for their country. The Catholic and patriotic point of view of the author made ​​the book a classic of American literature home.

Expenditure

Throughout the novel in America had great success and was reprinted again and again, especially in recent times, its effect in the German language by the translations in the postwar period has remained low.

English editions

  • Willa Cather: O Pioneers! Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913
  • Willa Cather: O Pioneers! Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933
  • Willa Cather: O Pioneers! Autograph edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937
  • Willa Cather: O Pioneers! Large print edition. Thorndike: Thorndike Press, 1945
  • Willa Cather: O Pioneers! Large print edition. Thorndike: Thorndike Press, 1986
  • Willa Cather: O Pioneers! Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988
  • Willa Cather: O Pioneers! New York: Penguin Books, 1989
  • Willa Cather: O Pioneers! New York: New American Library, 1989
  • Willa Cather: O Pioneers! Pleasantville: Reader's Digest Association, 1990
  • Willa Cather: O Pioneers! With historical introduction. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992
  • Willa Cather: O Pioneers! and other tales of the prairie. New York: Doubleday, 1999
  • Willa Cather: O Pioneers! Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999
  • Willa Cather: O Pioneers! Stamford: Westvaco, 2000
  • Willa Cather: O Pioneers! New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003
  • Willa Cather: O Pioneers! New York: Signet Classic, 2004
  • Overview of the numerous English-language editions of the present

German editions

  • Willa Cather: New Earth. Translation of Augusta Bronner. Vienna: Amandus Edition, 1946
  • Willa Cather: New Earth. Translation of Augusta Bronner. Vienna: Amandus edition, 1947 2nd edition
  • Willa Cather: Two women. Translation of Wolf and Ursula Hermann. Bremen: J. Storm, 1948
  • Willa Cather: Among the hills the next time. Translation of Wolf and Ursula Hermann, edited by Angelika Hartmann. München: Knaus, 1991, ISBN 3-8135-3987-3 (2nd Edition 1992)
  • Willa Cather: Among the hills the next time. Translation of Wolf and Ursula Hermann, edited by Angelika Hartmann. Munich: Goldmann, 1993, ISBN 3-442-42179-9 ( paperback edition )

Spanish edition

  • Willa Cather: Pioneiros. Translation by Jorge Cardoso Ayres. Revista Branca, 1953

Filming

  • O Pioneers! USA, 1992 ( Director: Glenn Jordan Starring: Jessica Lange, David Strathaim, Tom Aldredge )

Setting

  • Kim Daryl Sherman: O pioneers! Vocal score, 1995
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