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Bruges-la-Morte
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1892
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 120
A braid of a dead woman's golden hair lies under glass in Bruges, and every day the man who loved her comes to it as to an altar. Hugues Viane has chosen this city for his mourning because it is already in mourning: grey canals that hold the sky without moving, bells tolling over the water at every hour, the hushed courtyards of the béguines.
Bruges was his dead wife. And his dead wife was Bruges. Everything merged into one and the same fate.
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