豆瓣评分:8.7
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作者:ThorntonWilder
出版时间:2003-04-01
书籍简介:
This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. </p>
"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 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 and a novel read throughout the world. </p>
By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper 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. </p> This new edition of Wilder’s 1928 Pulitzer Prize winning novel contains a new foreword by Russell Banks.
作者简介:
怀尔德在美国文学史上有着特殊的地位，他是唯一同时荣膺普利策戏剧奖和小说奖的美国作家。作为剧作家，他更是与尤金•奥尼尔、阿瑟•米勒、田纳西•威廉斯齐名，并称为美国四大现代戏剧家。怀尔德为美国现代戏剧的灵魂人物与先驱，被誉为“二十世纪美国最后一位寓言家”。
怀尔德家族与中国缘分深厚。他的父亲曾任美国驻华总领事，怀尔德曾在烟台念过书。因此，他的作品中常常展现出带有中国气息的哲思，如因果、平凡是真、活在当下。
译者但汉松，1979年生于湖北咸宁，文学博士，现任职于南京大学英文系，业余从事文学翻译和书评写作，译有托马斯•品钦《性本恶》，书评散见于《书城》《南方周末》《三联生活周刊》等媒体，目前主要为《纽约时报中文网》从事“读读小说”专栏的写作。
