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Overview. A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims. Rowland V. Lee. Director. Thornton Wilder. Novel. Howard Estabrook. Screenplay.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey Taschenbuch – 27. Juli 2000. Englisch Ausgabe von Thornton Wilder (Autor) 4,2 1.434 Sternebewertungen. Alle Formate und Editionen anzeigen. An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the ...
The Bridge of San Luis Rey portrays eighteenth-century colonial Lima through the lens of five different characters who are involved in a sudden bridge collapse. In chronicling their lives prior to this catastrophe, the novel presents various kinds of art and artistry—from Doña María ’s witty letters, to the Perichole ’s legendary acting, to Brother Juniper ’s unfinished book.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey features a deceptively simple plot. Wilder sums it up in the novel's first line, "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." The story of the bridge collapse, and the five fated to die there, is told in flashback. A Franciscan missionary who witnessed the tragedy tries to makes ...
12. Sept. 2012 · The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Set in colonial Peru in the early 18th century, The Bridge of San Luis Rey interweaves the stories of five people who die when an ancient rope bridge breaks and sends them plunging into a gulf. The book opens with an account of how a Franciscan monk named Brother Juniper witnessed the accident and spent his ...
20. Juni 2023 · OCLC : 1148029202. Internet Archive : bridgeofsanluisr0000wild. HathiTrust : 001417712. English Wikisource : 4139887. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1927, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929. The longest-living author of this work died in 1975, so this work is in the public domain in ...
He could well have written of The Bridge of San Luis Rey as he wrote of Our Town: “It is an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events of our daily life.” The Bridge of San Luis Rey. On a summer day in 1714, a bridge collapses in Peru, plunging five unsuspecting travelers to their deaths. Brother Juniper, a witness to ...
