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A review by gluckenstein
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
4.5
Single-mindedness of the book is very interesting. Basically it's nothing but a number of psychological portraits: any actions that are described are motivated by illustration of the characters or tracking their development, their passion. Practically no attempt is made to complicate the construction of the story and craft some additional plot driver, suspense source. In this sense you might call it truly unadulterated literary fiction.
I wasn't blown away by it but don't quite see how it could have been better at its thing than it is. As it is basically just a series of oddball character portraits it naturally reminded me of Weinsburg, Ohio, only this book is more nakedly optimistic (it earns it by aspiring to be more of a universal fable, I guess).
I wasn't blown away by it but don't quite see how it could have been better at its thing than it is. As it is basically just a series of oddball character portraits it naturally reminded me of Weinsburg, Ohio, only this book is more nakedly optimistic (it earns it by aspiring to be more of a universal fable, I guess).