The bridge itself ( in both Wilder's story and Mérimée's play ) is based on the great Inca road suspension bridge across the Apurímac River, erected around 1350, still in use in 1864, and dilapidated but still hanging in 1890.

Smuggling is a common trope or theme in literature and can be found in a wide range of works – from the 18th century novels of Charlotte Turner Smith to Prosper Mérimée's 19th century novella, Carmen ( the inspiration for numerous films as well as Bizet's opera, Carmen ) to the James Bond novel ( and later film ) Diamonds are Forever.

Prosper Mérimée's Carmen ( 1845 ), on which Bizet's opera ( 1875 ) was based, is set during the war.

The allusions grow deep here however ; the line in Lolita is itself an allusion to Bizet's Carmen as well as Mérimée's novella upon which it is based.

It was Bizet who first proposed an adaptation of Prosper Mérimée's novella Carmen.

The subject chosen for this project was Prosper Mérimée's short novel Carmen.

The next offerings, Charles Vildrac's Le Paquebot Tenacity (" The Steamboat Tenacity ") and Prosper Mérimée's Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement elicited both critical and popular favor.

In 1940, Copeau was named Provisionary Administrator of the Comédie-Française, where he staged Pierre Corneilles Le Cid, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and Mérimée's Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement.

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.

It is the gradual unfolding and deepening of this contradiction which creates the inner dialectic of the evolution of the mystery story.

It is the growing contradiction between individualism and public service in the mystery story which creates this fatal dilemma.

And the best way to conceal and disguise the elements of an incest story is not to set out to write an incest story.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

It is the story of the hopeless love of a little boy for his cold and vain mother.

The rocking is actually felt in the story, a terrible and ominous rhythm that prophesies the tragedy.

The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

It is most probable that Freud and the Oedipus complex never entered his head in the writing of this story.

An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.

Then he would get to his feet, as though rising in honor of his own remarkable powers, and say almost invariably, `` Gentlemen, this is an amazing story!!

Perhaps it is only an analogy, but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation.

The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.

Once the scene is set, Trevelyan skilfully builds up the tense story until it reaches its climax in the dramatic victory of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy at Blenheim.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

Beginning in Cloth Of The Tempest ( 1943 ) he experimented in merging poetry and visual art, using drawings to carry long narrative segments of a story, as in Sleepers Awake, and constructing elaborate `` poems-in-drawing-and-type '' in which it is impossible to distinguish between the `` art '' and the poetry.

The story of the fatal crash is not fully known.

Shiras tells her story in simple yet affecting prose, a kind of blend of Sturgeon and Simak.

This, in addition to many of the houses being single story and boasting colours of the natural surroundings exemplifies Griffin ’ s objective which did not involve establishing imposing and artificial built structures, but rather to have the buildings blend in with the environment ; retaining the bush setting.

The greatest German composer of the next generation, Beethoven, seized on The Magic Flutes blend of domestic comedy and high seriousness for his only opera, Fidelio, the story of a devoted wife who saves her husband from political imprisonment.

The entire structure is designed to blend into one single, non-differentiable unit, that appears from the exterior to be a single story.

The 2002 animated adventure Dinosaur Island ( 2002 film ) is an attempt to blend the original story with the popular reality series format, and was written by John Loy, writer of similar productions such as The Land Before Time.

Granger writes that " act and fiction blend in the tales ", but that there are three main elements to the story:

If installed during an ongoing Baldur's Gate game, Tales of the Sword Coast will seamlessly blend into the main story line.

Wild Palms / Old Man is a blend of two stories, a love story and a river story, entitled " Wild Palms " and " Old Man ", respectively.

As published, the story is highly praised for its blend of realism and surrealism, the thematic exploration of suburban America, especially the relationship between wealth and happiness, as well as his use of myth and symbolism.

The game also attempts to blend the story and character interaction which are commonly associated with RPGs.

An experimental blend of comedy and tragedy, Yuan's story followed a group of young friends whose lack of financial means and social status frustrated their dreams of happiness, including a girl singer, her prostitute sister, and her soldier lover, home briefly between fighting the Japanese occupying north China.

" Those who want action instead of fiction will find the game somewhat dull, but those who appreciate an original story and great atmosphere will find In Cold Blood to be a satisfying blend of espionage and science fiction.

The ambiguity of the real life aspects of the story helps blend the fictitious and bizarre parts that are introduced with the more rational and reasonable occurrences.

Though he is primarily regarded as a travel writer, Raban ’ s accounts often blend the story of a journey with rich discussion of the history of the water through which he travels and the land around it.

American reviewers praised the game's story and setting for its quirky, unique flavor ; Nintendo Power called Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon a " blend of history, fantasy, and science fiction ," writing that the game " never failed to enchant or intrigue.

It told the story of an alien culture that contained an educational blend of science and Earth-like ancient civilizations.

Ward's first work, Gods ' Man ( 1929 ), uses a blend of Art Deco and Expressionist styles to tell the story of an artist's struggle with his craft, his seduction and subsequent abuse by money and power, and his escape to innocence.

Following a period of several years working behind the scenes in music production, multi-instrumentalist and producer / engineer Piet Sielck joined with former Helloween bandmate Kai Hansen and then-drummer for Blind Guardian Thomen Stauch in a new project that would blend power metal with a high-concept science fiction story.

The decision was made that in the story Vicki was coming to terms with the fact that she wanted to live in London so therefore she was going to make a conscious effort to fit in with everyone around her and blend in with London life.

The short story of Giulia Lazzari is a blend of Gullick's attempts to assassinate Chattopadhyaya and Mata Hari's story.