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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder
I listened to the audio of The Bridge of San Luis Rey written by Thornton Wilder and read by Timothy Andrea Pabon. Published by Blackstone Publishing on 27 June 2023.
It is a short book but one filled with beautiful prose and quotations.
On Friday noon, July the 20th, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction.
By chance, a monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the tragedy. He then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that
led to the deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own death …. and to the author's timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition.
"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."
It is a short book but one filled with beautiful prose and quotations.
On Friday noon, July the 20th, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction.
By chance, a monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the tragedy. He then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that
led to the deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own death …. and to the author's timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition.
"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."