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B. Bliss

Imagery for thought

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2016

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Willa Cather, as expected, blew me away with this book. It was exquisitely executed and contained imagery of superior quality. Recommended read to a more sensitively minded crowd. Enjoy!

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An enjoyable novel with excellent expression of people, and descriptions of life in the early days of the mid west settlers from Europe. Love story that is never consumated.

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2021

In reviewing “Death Comes to the Archbishop,” another Willa Cather classic, I asked “how can a book in which so little happens be so moving?” That question – and wonderment – also characterizes my reaction to “My Ántonia.”

This is a profoundly beautiful work, but it is not exactly plot intensive. Such notable incidents as are described are told to us in story-within-a-story fashion by Jim Burden, the book’s narrator. They are episodic rather than part of a larger plot. The book’s beauty is in its description of life on the Nebraska prairie in the late nineteenth century and the people who began to turn that barren land into one of the world’s breadbaskets.

While the hardships and rewards of life on the frontier are exquisitely described, the heart of the novel is the relationship between the two principal characters, who first meet after having arrived in Nebraska on the same train. Jim, a ten-year-old who has lost both his mother and father, is going to live on the prairie with his farming grandparents. Ántonia Shimerda, a few years older than Jim, is the daughter of new immigrants from Bohemia (now the Czech Republic), none of whom speaks more than a few words of English.

When they meet at the train station, the language barrier proves no obstacle to Jim and Antonia’s becoming immediate friends; indeed, Jim’s teaching her how to speak and read the new language provides an early foundation for their relationship. That relationship is traced from childhood adventures to an emotional parting as Jim prepares to go off to law school in the East, and finally to a return visit Jim pays her twenty-five years later, when he is a successful corporate lawyer in New York and she is a farmer’s wife with very many children, the first of whom was conceived out of wedlock with a man who promised to marry, but then deserted her.

Cather renders the deep feeling between Jim and Ántonia so beautifully that the reader is almost pained by the might-have-beens. (We have learned near the beginning of the book that Jim’s eventual marriage to a New York socialite is unsatisfying.) At their meeting before Jim goes East (she is already a single mother), Ántonia asks him if it isn’t “wonderful how much people can mean to each other.” For his part, Jim tells Ántonia that he thinks of her more often than anyone from his past, and that “I’d like to have had you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister – anything a woman can be to a man.”

One is almost tempted to shout, out loud, “well, it’s not too late, bozo!” Jim and Ántonia clearly love each other; why hasn’t more come of that?

Certainly, deep platonic relationships between men and women are possible, especially when they have been children together, almost brother and sister. But even apart from the confessional statement quoted above, we know that Jim would have wanted more; at one point during their adolescence, Jim kissed Ántonia in a not-platonic way, for which she gently rebuked him. It’s entirely credible that such an incident could have permanently closed the possibility of an even more intimate relationship.

But more is going on here. One section of the book deals with Jim’s relationship, while at college, with a woman named Lena Lingard, also a friend from home who is now building a dressmaking business in the city. Lena is no shrinking violet, and it is suggested that she knows more than a few men. It seems unrealistic, therefore, that although Jim and Lena start to see a great deal of each other, there is no indication (at least that I detected) of a romantic relationship, or even any sexual feelings, between them.

Although I first attributed this lack of verisimilitude to the constraints on writing about sex that presumably existed during the era when Cather did her work, I have since learned that Cather was a lesbian and lived with a female domestic partner for about forty years. At a time when attitudes about homosexuality were very different than today’s, Cather may have felt uncomfortable writing about sexual feelings.

Ultimately, though, this all doesn’t matter. In reading Willa Cather, one will not be engrossed by the plot; rather, one savors the beauty of the writing. And if Cather was not comfortable writing about sex, “My Ántonia” shows that she knew about love and could write about it peerlessly.

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R. McMullan

How is this someone’s favorite book

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2021

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I love historical fiction but this is just boring.