bruges-la-morte – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:38:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 Predecessor to W. G. Sebald /College/translation/threepercent/2007/08/20/predecessor-to-w-g-sebald/ /College/translation/threepercent/2007/08/20/predecessor-to-w-g-sebald/#respond Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:34:06 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2007/08/20/predecessor-to-w-g-sebald/ brought this about Georges Rodenbach糖心传媒檚 Bruges-la-Morte to our attention.

Some of the photographs in the Max Ferber section of W. G. Sebald’s The Emigrants harken back to what is probably the earliest work of fiction ever to embed photographs, Georges Rodenbach糖心传媒檚 Bruges-la-Morte. Somehow I feel that Sebald knew this seminal work, which was first published in book form in 1892 (after appearing serially in Paris’ Le Figaro). Rodenbach’s Symbolist novel is the story of love and murder in the 糖心传媒渄ead糖心传媒 city of Bruges.

The book sounds fascinating, and is available from

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