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Georges Rodenbach was born in Tournai to a French mother and a German father from the Rhineland (Andernach).
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Hugues Viane has turned to the melancholy of the decaying city of Bruges as an ideal location in which to mourn the death of his wife. The city becomes the dead image of his dead wife whilst Hugues falls into psychological torment and humiliation, culminating in a deranged murder.
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journalist novelist playwright writer poet
Georges Rodenbach was born in Tournai to a French mother and a German father from the Rhineland (Andernach).
He went to school in Ghent at the prestigious Sint-Barbaracollege, where he became friends with the poet Emile Verhaeren. Rodenbach worked as a lawyer and journalist. He spent the last ten years of his life in Paris as the correspondent of the Journal de Bruxelles, and was an intimate of Edmond de Goncourt.
He published eight collections of verse and four novels, as well as short stories, stage works and criticism.
In his best known work,, he explains that his aim is to evoke the town as a living being, associated with the moods of the spirit, counselling, dissuading from and prompting action. Bruges-la-Morte was used by the composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold as the basis for his opera Die Tote Stadt.
David Bowie mentions Rodenbach in his song "Dancing Out In Space" from his 2013 album The Next Day. The exact line, "Silent as Georges Rodenbach", is possibly referring to Rodenbach"s book of poetry "Le règne du silence" (The Reign of Silence) including the final poem "Du silence".
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He produced some Parisian and purely imitative work. But a major part of his production is the outcome of a passionate idealism of the quiet Flemish towns in which he had passed his childhood and early youth.