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Classic Literature.
Fiction.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder's second novel, won him the first of his three Pulitzer Prizes. The novel opens in the aftermath of an inexplicable tragedy-a tiny footbridge in Peru breaks, and five travelers hurtle to their deaths. Most townspeople think to themselves with secret joy, "Within 10 minutes myself...." But for Brother Juniper, a humble Franciscan friar who witnesses the catastrophe, the question is inescapable: Why those five? Suddenly, Brother Juniper is committed to discover what manner of lives these five disparate people led-and whether it was divine intervention that took their lives, or a capricious fate. Wilder maintained in his works that true meaning and beauty are found in ordinary experience. This is especially true of The Bridge of San Luis Rey. From the very beginning to the stunning conclusion, the listener is absorbed into the individual stories of the five victims, and how their destinies intertwine.… (más)
La caída en julio de 1714 del "puente más bonito de todo el Perú" y la consecuente muerte de 5 viajeros, indice a un fraile franciscano a iniciar una investigación acerca de las causas del accidente que, por caminos inesperados, le pondrá a las puertas de la muerte en la hoguera. La emocionante peripecia y la colorista reporducción del Perú de los vireyes, bajo el Imperio español, no ocultan sin embargo una aguda exposición de lo que es, esencialmente, una cuestión metafísica: la naturaleza de la voluntad divina.
This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.
La caída en julio de 1714 del "puente más bonito de todo el Perú" y la consecuente muerte de 5 viajeros, indice a un fraile franciscano a iniciar una investigación acerca de las causas del accidente que, por caminos inesperados, le pondrá a las puertas de la muerte en la hoguera. La emocionante peripecia y la colorista reporducción del Perú de los vireyes, bajo el Imperio español, no ocultan sin embargo una aguda exposición de lo que es, esencialmente, una cuestión metafísica: la naturaleza de la voluntad divina.
It is no exaggeration to say that on second reading I was completely blown away, not so much by Wilder's sensitive treatment of his central theme as by the richness and power of his prose.
It is an entirely remarkable book, it has lost none of its pertinence in the eight decades since its publication, and I'm very glad indeed that my old friend sent me back to it.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
TO My Mother
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below.
Foreword
Thornton Wilder's Bridge of San Luis Rey is as close to perfect a moral fable as we are ever likely to get in American literature.
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan. And on that instant Brother Juniper made the resolve to inquire into the secret lives of those five persons, that moment falling through the air, and to surprise the reason of their taking off.
…the Conde delighted in her letters, but he thought that when he had enjoyed the style he had extracted all their richness and intention, missing (as most readers do) the whole purport of literature, which is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.
Some days he regarded his bulk ruefully; but the distress of remorse was less poignant that the distress of fasting.
His favourite notions: that the poor, never having known happiness, are insensible to misfortune.... that only the widely read could be said to KNOW that they were unhappy.
Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves will be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Classic Literature.
Fiction.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder's second novel, won him the first of his three Pulitzer Prizes. The novel opens in the aftermath of an inexplicable tragedy-a tiny footbridge in Peru breaks, and five travelers hurtle to their deaths. Most townspeople think to themselves with secret joy, "Within 10 minutes myself...." But for Brother Juniper, a humble Franciscan friar who witnesses the catastrophe, the question is inescapable: Why those five? Suddenly, Brother Juniper is committed to discover what manner of lives these five disparate people led-and whether it was divine intervention that took their lives, or a capricious fate. Wilder maintained in his works that true meaning and beauty are found in ordinary experience. This is especially true of The Bridge of San Luis Rey. From the very beginning to the stunning conclusion, the listener is absorbed into the individual stories of the five victims, and how their destinies intertwine.
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