There is an opiatic quality to the writing which at its best hovers on poetry's border. Hugues's relationship with the dancer who closely resembles his dead wife provides the plot, but the book's real heart lies in the descriptions of Bruges itself, and its 'amalgam of greyish drowsiness'. The Times
A precursor to W G Sebald, a Symbolist vision of the city that lays the way for Aragon & Joyce, and a macabre story of obsessive love & transfiguring horror that is midway between Robert Browning & Tod Browning. Bruges, "an amalgam of greyish drowsiness", is the setting and spur.' Scotland on Sunday
'Bruges evoked in melancholy imagery, in this new translated Symbolist novel.' Summer Reading Recommendations in The Financial Times
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BN ID: | 2940169191783 |
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Publisher: | LibriVox |
Publication date: | 08/25/2014 |
Language: | French |
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