Poems - Couverture souple

Rodenbach, Georges

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1904614647 ISBN 13 : 9781904614647

Editeur : Arc Publications, 2017

Synopsis

Rodenbach is known first and foremost for his famous novel Bruges la Morte and thus it is for his connection with Bruges that he is always remembered. Bruges was his muse and poetic source, the landscape in which he attempted to reveal the significance of what appeared lifeless or unconnected to art.

Using the symbolist devices of suggestion and mood, Rodenbach, in these poems, sifts the elements that make up the decaying Bruges which he sees as a medieval corpse laid out for him to rescue through his interpretation of its atmosphere of melancholy, its seductive romantic decline and its lonely atmosphere. With rare beauty and delicacy, Rodenbach s poetry spins its web of tonal impressionism and seems always to exist on the border of silence.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Georges Rodenbach (1855-1898) was born and educated in Ghent, alongside his friend Emile Verhaeren. Rodenbach is forever associated with his symbolist evocations of an abandoned melancholy Bruges. Prodigious in short stories, novels as well as poetry, he was the first Belgian writer of his circle to move to Paris, and find support from his French counterparts. he died there of ill health in 1898 aged 43.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arc Publications
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1904614647
• ISBN 13: 9781904614647
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 114
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible