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— Russell Banks, Foreword to The Bridge of San Luis Rey “On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.” So begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey , one of the great achievements in American literature, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and a novel still read throughout the world.
Die Brücke von San Luis Rey (The Bridge of San Luis Rey) war Thornton Wilders zweiter Roman. Das 1927 erstmals erschienene Werk gewann 1928 den Pulitzer-Preis; das Magazin Time zählt den Roman zu den besten 100 englischsprachigen Romanen, die zwischen 1923 und 2005 veröffentlicht wurden.
Published in 1927, The Bridge of San Luis Rey is from a different era of literature, when it was possible to be both the biggest selling book of the year and win the Pulitzer Prize. But it was worthy of both honors. This is a story with universal appeal told through beautiful writing.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a 2004 French-Spanish-British drama film directed by Mary McGuckian and featuring an ensemble cast, including Robert De Niro, Pilar López de Ayala, F. Murray Abraham, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne, Émilie Dequenne, and Harvey Keitel. It is based on Thornton Wilder 's 1927 novel of the same name.
While The Bridge of San Luis was Wilder’s first literary success, his later and better-known plays, Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, both depart from and reflect his first novel. Whereas Wilder set The Bridge of San Luis Rey in a time and place remote to his own life, Wilder’s plays delve into seemingly ordinary small-town American life ...
About The Bridge of San Luis Rey. This Pulitzer Prize-winning, fable-like short novel—by the author of Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth—has been beloved around the world for nearly a century. This splendid and profoundly moving novel begins with a simple and seemingly senseless tragedy.
Pulitzer Prize. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Thornton Wilder, published in 1927. Wilder’s career was established with this book, in which he first made use of historical subject matter as a background for his interwoven themes of the search for justice, the possibility of altruism, and the role of Christianity ...
