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Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach (16 July 1855 – 25 December 1898) was a Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist.
Georges Rodenbach (born July 16, 1855, Tournai, Belg.—died Dec. 25, 1898, Paris, France) was a Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist whose writing was inspired by scenes of his native country. Rodenbach studied law at the University of Ghent, Belgium, and continued his studies in Paris.
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Jun 18, 2015 · Learn about the life and works of Georges Rodenbach, a poet and novelist who used photographs in his fiction. See his dramatic tomb with a sculpture of him breaking free from a block of granite.
Georges Rodenbach was born in Tournai to a French mother and a German father from the Rhineland (Andernach). He went to school in Ghent at the prestigious Sint-Barbaracollege, where he became friends with the poet Emile Verhaeren. Rodenbach worked as a lawyer and journalist.
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Born in Tournai on 16 July 1855, illustrating Flemish themes in French language, Georges Rodenbach was the first Belgian writer to be successful in Paris. A few months after he was born, his parents settled in Ghent and Georges lived there during his childhood and adolescence.
May 8, 2017 · The substantial twelve page introduction to this attractively produced bi-lingual edition of Rodenbach’s selected poems is a clear reminder yet again of how the translator and literary critic/historian treads a path to the reader: Stone brings the world of Rodenbach’s eerie white shades to the fore and we can recognise the ways in which ...
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painting of the turn of the last century. Georges Rodenbach 's 1892 novella, Bruges-la-Morte, is a paradigmatic instance of a thematic infused with the spirit of fin de siècle pessimism. Rodenbach's literary retreat from the contemporary urban metro-polis to evocation of a medieval city in decline is expressive of a
