Bruges-la-Morte

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Bruges-la-Morte is a symbolist novel by Georges Rodenbach that portrays a widower’s obsessive mourning in the melancholic, death-haunted city of Bruges.

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Bruges-la-Morte canonical 6
Paul in "Bruges-la-Morte" 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
symbolist novel
adaptationComposer Erich Wolfgang Korngold
adaptationLibrettist Julius Korngold
adaptedAs opera
author Georges Rodenbach
centralConflict obsessive mourning for dead wife
containsIllustrations true
countryOfOrigin Belgium
firstBookPublicationDate 1892
firstBookPublisher Flammarion
linked to: Ernest Flammarion
firstPublicationDate 1892
firstPublicationForm serial publication
firstPublisher Le Figaro
genre Symbolism
psychological fiction
hasAdaptation Die tote Stadt
hasEnglishTitle Bruges-la-Morte
hasFrenchTitle Bruges-la-Morte
influenced James Joyce
The Dead
isSetIn Flanders
literaryForm prose fiction
literaryMovement Symbolism
literaryStatus classic of symbolist literature
mainCharacter Hugues Viane
motif bells
canals
doppelgänger
hair of the dead wife
religious imagery
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableFor integration of photographs into the narrative
portrayal of Bruges as a living, morbid entity
numberOfPhotographsInFirstEdition 35
originalLanguage French
periodOfWork fin de siècle
placeOfSetting Bruges
protagonistStatus widower
settingCharacteristic death-haunted city
melancholic atmosphere
theme city as character
death
memory
mourning
obsession

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Die tote Stadt basedOn Bruges-la-Morte
Georges Rodenbach notableWork Bruges-la-Morte
Bruges-la-Morte hasEnglishTitle Bruges-la-Morte
Bruges-la-Morte hasFrenchTitle Bruges-la-Morte
The Dead City basedOn Bruges-la-Morte
Paul (Die tote Stadt) basedOn Paul in "Bruges-la-Morte"
subject linked to: Paul
linked to: Bruges-la-Morte
Marie basedOn Bruges-la-Morte