圣路易斯雷桥（Vintage Classics） The Bridge of San Luis Rey

基本信息

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Imprint:Vintage

ISBN:9780593470947

Published:15 Aug 2023

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书籍简介

这部精彩而感人至深的小说以一个简单而看似毫无意义的悲剧开始。 “1714 年 7 月 20 日星期五中午，秘鲁好的桥梁断裂，导致五名旅客落入下面的海湾。” 一位旅行僧侣杜松兄弟目睹了这场灾难，并开始痴迷于调查五名受害者的生活，以证明他们的死亡是有意义的。 他的使命注定要失败，但在故事的发展过程中，五个不幸的人——一位贵妇、一位女仆、一个孤儿、一个老人和一个孩子——以极其复杂的方式为读者展现了生命。 他们交织在一起的生活——在一个破碎的时刻被消灭——阐明了我们可以问自己的关于爱的本质和人类状况的意义的大问题。

This splendid and profoundly moving novel begins with a simple and seemingly senseless tragedy. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." A traveling monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the catastrophe and becomes obsessed with investigating the lives of the five victims in order to prove that their deaths had meaning. His mission is doomed to fail, but over the course of the story, the five unlucky individuals—a noblewoman, a maid, an orphan, an old man, and a child—come to life for the reader in all of their glorious complexity. Their intertwined lives—snuffed out in one shattering moment—illuminate the biggest questions that we can ask ourselves about the nature of love and meaning of the human condition.

作者简介

桑顿·怀尔德（THORNTON WILDER，1897-1975）是一位同时获得小说（《圣路易斯雷之桥》）和戏剧（《我们的小镇》和《牙齿之皮》两次）两项普利策奖的作家。 他的戏剧《红娘》被改编成音乐剧《你好，多莉！》，并为阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克的《疑影》撰写剧本。 怀尔德获得的许多荣誉包括美国艺术与文学学院颁发的小说金奖和总统自由勋章。

THORNTON WILDER (1897-1975) is the only writer to have been awarded Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction (for The Bridge of San Luis Rey), and drama (twice, for Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth). His play The Matchmaker was adapted into the musical Hello, Dolly!, and he wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt. Wilder's many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.