薇拉·凯瑟是美国当代最著名的女作家之一。她的小说在题材上以描写西部“拓荒者”见长,在表现手法上一般没有叠床架屋的细节描写,节奏舒缓流畅。她在20年代发表了一篇颇有影响的论文——《没有家具的小说》,呼吁兴起一个运动把家具从小说中扔出去,让人物在“徒有四壁”的环境中活动。她自已的许多小说创作就是实践这种主张的例证,并且取得了很大成功。 Vera Cather is one of the most famous contemporary American women writers. Her novels on the theme to describe the “pioneer” in the West, known in the way of expression is generally no description of the details of the stacked bed racks, slow and smooth rhythm. She published an influential essay in the 1920s, Fiction Without Furniture, calling for the rise of a movement to throw furniture out of fiction and to move people around in a “wall-less” setting. Many of her own novel creations are examples of the practice of this claim and have achieved great success.