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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.
Zakup książki
Bruges-La-Morte, Georges Rodenbach
- Język
- Rok wydania
- 1993
- Oprawa
- (miękka)
Metody płatności
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- Tytuł
- Bruges-La-Morte
- Język
- angielski
- Autorzy
- Georges Rodenbach
- Wydawca
- Atlas Press LLC
- Rok wydania
- 1993
- Oprawa
- miękka
- Liczba stron
- 96
- ISBN10
- 0947757589
- ISBN13
- 9780947757588
- Seria
- Tagi
- Tematy historyczne, Francja, XIX wiek, Gotyka, Belgia
- Ocena
- 4,1 z 5
- Opis
- 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.