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Bruges-la-Morte (French; The Dead [City of] Bruges) is a short novel by the Belgian author Georges Rodenbach, first published in 1892. The novel is notable for two reasons: it was the archetypal Symbolist novel, and was the first work of fiction illustrated with photographs.
- Georges Rodenbach
- 1892
Jan 5, 2008 · Sat 5 Jan 2008 04.58 EST. Bruges-la-Morte. by Georges Rodenbach, translated by Mike Mitchell and Will Stone, introduction by Alan Hollinghurst. (Dedalus, £7.99) There is something very...
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- Rodenbach, Georges, 1855-1898
- Bruges-la-morte
- French
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2,385 ratings277 reviews. Hugues Viane is a widower who has turned to the melancholy, decaying city of Bruges as the ideal location in which to mourn his wife and as a backdrop for the narcissistic wanderings of his disturbed spirit. He becomes obsessed with a young dancer whom he believes is the double of his beloved wife, leading him to ...
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T he theme of the dead city, most often a medieval canal city in. desuetude, was obsessively recurrent in Belgian prose, poetry, and painting of the turn of the last century. Georges Rodenbach 's 1892. novella, Bruges-la-Morte, is a paradigmatic instance of a thematic. infused with the spirit of fin de siècle pessimism.
Georges Rodenbach. Translated by Philip Mosley. Bruges-la-Morte is the story of one man’s obsession with his dead wife and his soul’s struggle between an alluring young dancer—his late wife’s double—and the beautiful, melancholy city of Bruges, whose moody atmosphere mirrors his mourning.
Bruges-la-Morte is a short novel by the Belgian author Georges Rodenbach, first published in 1892. The title is difficult to translate but might be rendered as The Dead City of Bruges . It tells the story of Hugues Viane, a widower overcome with grief, who takes refuge in Bruges, where he becomes obsessed with a dancer he sees at the opera ...
