The Bridge of San Luis Rey Literary Devices

Explanation and Analysis:

In The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Wilder cultivates a formal and deliberately antiquated style. The author wrote this novel in the 1920s but set it some three centuries in the past, purposefully adopting some conventions of 18th-century writing to further distance the narrative from life in his own era. One of those stylistic flourishes is his frequent use of aphorisms, or broad observations that communicate a universal truth. For example, when Esteban discovers that his brother Manuel has fallen in love with the Perichole, thus compromising their fraternal bond, Wilder writes that:

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

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