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Bruges-la-morte (Dedalus European Classics) Book
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 becomess obsessed with a young dancer whom he believes is the double of his beloved wife. The consequent drama leads Hugues 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.Read More
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- 1903517230
- 9781903517239
- Georges Rodenbach
- 27 February 2005
- Dedalus Ltd
- Paperback (Book)
- 166
- New ed
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