Bruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach
The archetypal Symbolist novel, and a gorgeous tapestry of death and melancholy, Bruges-la-Morte was also the first work of fiction to employ photographs in the style of Breton, Drndic and Sebald A widower, Hugues Viane, takes refuge in the decay of Bruges, living among the relics of his dead wife as he transforms his home and the very city he inhabits into her spatial embalmment. Spinning out his existence in a mournful, silent labyrinth of entombed streets and the cold arteries of canals, Viane takes comfort in his narcissistic delirium, until his world is shaken by the appearance of his wife’s doppelganger: a young dancer encountered in the street, whose appearance conjures a sequence of events that will introduce the specter of reality into his ritualist dream-state to disastrous effect. The archetype of the Symbolist novel, Bruges-la-Morte, first published in 1892, remains Georges Rodenbach’s most famous work; it has seen numerous cinematic and operatic adaptations, and inspired the source material for Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. It was also a precursor to such authors as André Breton and W.G. Sebald in being the first novel to employ photographs as illustrations—to allow readers, as Rodenbach put it, to “be subject to the presence of the town, feel the contagion of the neighboring waters, sense in their turn the shadow of the high towers reaching across the text.” Georges Rodenbach (1855–98) was one of the major figures of Belgian Symbolism, an essential bridge between the Belgian and Parisian literary scenes, and a friend and colleague of Verhaeren, Maeterlinck, Mallarmé and Huysmans. He was the author of four novels, eight collections of verse and numerous short stories, plays and critical works.
Rodenbach, Georges: - Georges Rodenbach, nü¾Ž–”¼ le 16 juillet 1855 ü¾Œ†”¼ Tournai et mort le 25 dü¾Ž–”¼cembre 1898 ü¾Œ†”¼ Paris, est un poü¾Ž†”¼te symboliste et un romancier belge de la fin du XIXe siü¾Ž†”¼cle.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781939663818 |
| ISBN 10 | 1939663814 |
| Title | Bruges-la-Morte |
| Author | Georges Rodenbach |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wakefield Press |
| Year published | 2022-10-13 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
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