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The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel. It was first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, and was the best-selling work of fiction that year.
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.
Die Brücke von San Luis Rey (Originaltitel: The Bridge of San Luis Rey) ist ein britisch-spanisch-französisches Filmdrama aus dem Jahr 2004. Regie führte Mary McGuckian, die das Drehbuch anhand des bereits in den Jahren 1929 und 1944 verfilmten gleichnamigen Romans von Thornton Wilder schrieb und den Film auch mit produzierte.
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. 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.
Overview. by Ashley Gallagher. Plot Summary. Winner of the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey begins: “On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.”
22. Dez. 2004 · The Bridge of San Luis Rey: Directed by Mary McGuckian. With F. Murray Abraham, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne, Geraldine Chaplin. In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge.
On July 20, 1714, an important bridge outside Lima, Peru, collapses without warning, plunging five travelers to their instant deaths. This unprecedented evet becomes a communal touchstone for the Limean population, which can’t fathom why such a catastrophe would occur.
