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Bruges-La-Morte (Dedalus European Classics)
BrugesLaMorte - Dedalus European Classics Author:Georges Rodenbach 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 psychol... more »ogical torment and humiliation, culminating in a deranged murder. This 1892 work is a poets 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 Rodenbachs lifelong love affair with the enduring mystery and mortuary atmosphere of Bruges.« less