Bells of Bruges, the - (Le Carillonneur)

Informationen zum Autor Georges Rodenbach was born in Tournai to a French mother and a German father from the Rhineland.He published eight collections of verse and four novels, as well as short stories, stage works and criticism. 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. Klappentext There are three loves in the life of Joris Borluut, the town carillonneur of Bruges. He marries the fiery Barbe, whose dark beauty is a reminder of Belgiums Spanish heritage. Repelled by her harshness and violence, he starts an affair with her sister, the gentle, soulful, fair-haired Godelieve. When her sister discovers their affair, Godelieve enters a Beguine convent and Joris devotes himself to his first love, the old city of Bruges. His opposition to a proposal to sacrifice part of the old town to economic advance loses him his position as town architect, and he withdraws to the belfry and his beloved carillon that, for him, expresses the soul of Bruges.

Product details

• Authors: Georges Rodenbach, RODENBACH GEORGES
• Assisted by: Mike Mitchell (Translation), Mike (Lecturer in German Mitchell (Translation)
• Publisher: Dedalus Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.06.2007
• EAN: 9781903517543
• ISBN: 978-1-903517-54-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Dedalus European Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature