Modern in tone, theme and form, Georges Rodenbach's "Bruges-La-Morte" depicts a human being in a radical state of introspection.

Famous as the setting of Georges Rodenbach’s Symbolist novel “Bruges-la-Morte” (1892), which inspired Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s haunting 1920 opera, “Die tote Stadt,” this medieval ...

This changed when Georges Rodenbach published his book "Bruges-la-Morte" in 1892, turning the city into a tourist destination. Trains from Brussels run twice an hour and take about 70 minutes.

This changed when Georges Rodenbach published his book "Bruges-la-Morte" in 1892, turning the city into a tourist destination. Trains from Brussels run twice an hour and take about 70 minutes.

Anne, a young orphan, comes to Bruges to find shelter with relatives. During a procession there she gets to know Jean, a hunchback, who falls in love with her. The trouble is that Pierre, Jean's ...

Bruges-La-Morte was lapped up by Rodenbach’s Parisian circles. And Bruges became a cult tourist destination, known for its medieval architecture and perennial gloom.

By the time the 19th-century writer Georges Rodenbach published his popular if morbid fin-de-siècle novel Bruges-la-morte (in turn the inspiration for Erich Korngold’s no less mad-with-misery ...

In the 19th century Bruges was deemed the poorest city in Belgium and described by a local author as Bruges la Morte (Bruges the dead place).