Bruges-la-Morte: Georges Rodenbach (Dedalus European Classics)
This is a book which is not only richly, almost oppressively, atmospheric: it is about atmosphere, about how a city can be a state of mind as well as a geographical entity. It has its shocks and its melodrama: but it is a haunting, and a haunted work.."    Nick Lezard inThe Guardian" a Symbolist vision of the city that lays the way for Aragon and Joyce, and a macabre story of obsessive love and transfiguring horror .This is a little masterpiece." Scotland on Sunday" The translators remain faithful to the substance and style of the original, and Alan Hollinghurst's introduction is stimulating and heartfelt, explaining Rodenbach's idiosyncrasies without apologizing for them." Daniel Starza-Smith in The Times Literary Supplement