Narration. About Thornton Wilder´s Our City

Abstract

To what extent Our city depends on the teachings of Gertrude Stein, whom Thornton Wilder referred to as his “Diotima”, is one of the most difficult, and most compensatory, entries in the studies on the work. It has been talk of influence and catalysis, anticipation and coincidence. Wilder had rehearsed in many of his plays in a single act prior to Our City there nunciation of plot and dramaticaction, as well as the stripping of the stage −as Stein herselfhad done in hisownplays− but he had yet to find the final form for what he crave to say. Ten years after The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and despite the fact that he was still working on Heaven, my destination, that definitive form had to allow him to disappear as the author of novels so that daily life, about which there is no room for omniscience, would occupy the his rightful place.

Keywords

• estudios culturales
• narración
• gertrude stein
• influencia
• forma literariae