Georges Rodenbach
Birth date: July 16, 1855
Died: December 25, 1898
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Women or men who need to come to terms with the loss of a loved one are popular figures in literature. Often, the grieving find new joy, maybe even new love by the end of the story and at first this also seems to be the case in the late nineteenth-century novel Bruges-la-morte by almost forgotten Be...
I DNFed a long time ago. It was just so bad.
The language in this book is so poetic that is actually lives in its metaphors, merging with them until the metaphors are the reality. When Joris wins the competition at the beginning and is handed the keys to the tower, he feels he is being handed the keys to his tomb. And he is. Literally. And...
I sometimes get the worrying feeling that nineteenth-century men preferred their women to be dead than alive. There is something archetypal about the repeated vision of the pale, beautiful, fragile, utterly feminine corpse. Beyond corruption, a woman who's died is a woman you can safely worship with...
Hugues Viane has retired to Bruges after the death of his wife of ten years; five years later, he is still unable to put her memory to rest. Indeed, he has sequestered himself in his home, erecting a shrine to his wife; in this room are gathered her portraits and various objects and trinkets, along ...
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