However, was almost certainly an even more important source, providing what
May well have found some useful background information for her own "war Probably through his war novel Le feu ( Under Fire) that Cather came to know of Barbusse, and she Novelist, biographer, and essayist Henri Barbusse (1873-1935). Must add the name of the twentieth-century journalist, short-story writer, Maupassant, Merrimée, Musset, Sand, Verlaine, and Zola. Names of twenty-six French writers whom she had read (156).Īs would be expected, Woodress's list includes the nineteenth-century giants,Īmong them Balzac, Daudet (Cather's favorite), Dumas ( pére and fils), Flaubert, Hugo, And James Woodress noted in his 1993 article on Cather andĪlphonse Daudet that in the index to his biography of Cather he found the "imbibing of French literature was to be intense and prolonged until her In his assessment ofĬather's French connections, Michel Gervaud declared in 1974 that Cather's That their reading "covered a vast territory" (196). Reading French masterpieces with Cather during her Pittsburgh years, said Moreover, George Seibel, recounting his experience Made it a loving duty to read every French literary masterpiece she could
There seemed to be a natural affinityīetween her mind and French forms of art. Sometimes abashed some of her professors by caring more for their subjects Students at the University of Nebraska in the 1890s, Cather "amazed and
In 1933 Dorothy Canfield Fisher remembered that while she and Cather were Would not be much creative power of any sort left in the world" ("Dumas" "very little country" should someday slide into the English Channel "there The Nebraska State Journal she declared that if that Had developed the arts to the highest degree. Literature-or cooking-Cather from an early age was convinced that the French
Realize that she was an ardent Francophile. Barbusse's L'enfer A Source for "Coming, Aphrodite!" and "The NovelĪnyone who has read a great deal of Willa Cather's work cannot help but
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