Titel	The Bridge of San Louis Rey
Labels
ID	1764
Type	publication >> novel
Date	1927

Collection(s)	manually created entity
Uri(s)	https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/1764/
Notes	The novel "narrates the effort to solve the puzzle of the deaths of five individuals killed by the collapse of a bridge in Latin America set in a historical period Wilder had carefully studied, namely early eighteenth-century Peru. In Brother Juniper, who obsessively tries to solve the mystery of this accident and to justify the fates of the victims as part of a providential design, central religious issues are raised as is in the text the reality of true overwhelming love in its many forms. The novel was also the fruit of Wilder’s extensive reflection on religious issues debated with his Calvinistic father, and his empathy with historical figures, such as the accomplished French letter-writer Madame de Sévigné, and his evocation of partially invented characters inspired by French drama." (see Zacharasiewicz in "Ideas Crossing the Atlantic," p. 144-45)