Copie și original, jocul asemănărilor. O lectură vizuală a romanului Bruges-la-Morte de Georges Rodenbach
Copy vs. original, the interplay of resemblance. A visual study on the novel Bruges-laMorte by Georges Rodenbach

Summary/Abstract: The novel Bruges-la-Morte (1892) by the Symbolist poet and prose writer Georges Rodenbach was said to be a big revelation, through a literary text, of a second Venice, the Belgian town Bruges, where the action is placed and whose role in the novel is symbolic and essential. A close analysis in this paper will pursue the relation between the original and the copy through a few points derived mainly from a theoretical bibliography of visual studies. I will analyze the evolution of the plot and the love triangles of the lovers-protagonists with the dead wife and the City respectively, in order to reflect on the status of the copies in relation to original artifacts in art, and on how external factors like time, history, milieu, resemblance, or significant details operate in changing this relation, all through the lens of a Symbolist love story.

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