Bruges-La-Morte -

Georges Rodenbach

Dedalus

2004

100 páginas

3h 20m

ISBN-13: 9782930646084

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.

Resenhas (3)

3.5 (Bom)

à vrai dire, il n'avait pas d'amour pour elle. tout ce qu'il désirait c'était pouvoir éterniser le leurre de ce mirage.