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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
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2020
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- Titolo
- Bruges-la-Morte
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Georges Rodenbach
- Editore
- Dedalus Ltd
- Pubblicato
- 2020
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 166
- ISBN10
- 1912868067
- ISBN13
- 9781912868063
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Tema stórico, Classici, Francia, XIX Secolo, Gotico, Belgio
- Valutazione
- 4,1 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.