Rodenbach Georges - Bruges - La - Morte - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 Andr 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 Mallarm and Huysmans. He was the author of four novels eight collections of verse and numerous short stories plays and critical works.
Title: Bruges - La - Morte
Author(s): Rodenbach Georges
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Barcode: 9781939663818
Pages: 160 Pages, 36 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 8/30/2022
Category: Fiction: Special Features