![]() ![]() The story of French missionaries in the second half of the 1800s is based on the historical events of attempts to establish a diocese in the frontier territories of New Mexico and Arizona. Willa Cather described the result of her bold experimentation into advancing the art of the novel in Death Comes for the Archbishop as “altogether a new kind of thing.” Reviewers, critics, scholars, and academicians have described the work in a multiplicity of terms: chronicle, character study, intimate epic, regional historical fiction, and even, in the lyrical language of one writer, “an interplay of environment and character.” Such a distinctively idiosyncratic and successful endeavor was Death Comes for the Archbishop in the eyes of its creator that it moved Willa Cather-arguably one of the five best writers in America at any time during her long career-to request an increase in her standard royalty payment by one percent. ![]()
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