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 ...

In Bruges-La-Morte, the rest of the town seemed empty, the buildings menacing. Viane found solace in the people-less streets, in the incessant rain, and the imposing din of belfries.

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 ...