Bruges-la-Morte and The Death Throes of Towns [Dedalus European Classics]
Georges Rodenbach, Allan Hollinghurst (intro.), Mike Mitchell (transl.), Will Stone (transl.)Bruges-la-Morte (French; The Dead [City of] Bruges) is a short novel by the Belgian author Georges Rodenbach, first published in 1892. The novel is notable for two reasons: it was the archetypal Symbolist novel, and was the first work of fiction illustrated with photographs.
A translation by Thomas Duncan was published by Atlas Press in London in 1993. A new English translation of Bruges-la-Morte, by Will Stone and Mike Mitchell, appeared in 2005, published by Dedalus Books and with an introduction by Alan Hollinghurst.
Plot
It tells the story of Hugues Viane, a widower overcome with grief, who takes refuge in Bruges, where he lives among the relics of his former wife - her clothes, her letters, a length of her hair - rarely leaving his house. However he becomes obsessed with a dancer he sees at the opera "Robert le diable" who bears a likeness to his dead wife. He courts her but in time he comes to see she is very different, coarser, and their relationship ends in tragedy.Categories:
Year:
1892
Edition:
re-ed Dedalus, 2011
Publisher:
Dedalus
Language:
english
ISBN 10:
1907650202
ISBN 13:
9781907650208
Series:
Dedalus European Classics
File:
EPUB, 1.57 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1892
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