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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 psychological torment and humiliation, culminating in a deranged murder. This 1892 work is a poet's novel, dense, visionary and haunting. Bruges, the 'dead city', becomes a metaphor for Hugues' dead wife as he follows its mournful labyrinth of streets and canals in a cyclical promenade of reflection and allusion--the ultimate evocation of Rodenbach's lifelong love affair with the enduring mystery and mortuary atmosphere of Bruges.
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Bruges-la-Morte, Georges Rodenbach
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2020
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- Titel
- Bruges-la-Morte
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Georges Rodenbach
- Verlag
- Dedalus Ltd
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2020
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 166
- ISBN10
- 1912868067
- ISBN13
- 9781912868063
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historisches Thema, Klassiker, Frankreich, 19. Jahrhundert, Gotik, Belgien
- Bewertung
- 4,1 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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 psychological torment and humiliation, culminating in a deranged murder. This 1892 work is a poet's novel, dense, visionary and haunting. Bruges, the 'dead city', becomes a metaphor for Hugues' dead wife as he follows its mournful labyrinth of streets and canals in a cyclical promenade of reflection and allusion--the ultimate evocation of Rodenbach's lifelong love affair with the enduring mystery and mortuary atmosphere of Bruges.