"Bruges-La-Morte, " a tale of obsessive love, is a Symbolist novel, perhaps the Symbolist novel.

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Here he meets the young Albertine, and from then on the story charts his obsessive love for her, which reaches an unlikely climax on top of a wartime barrage balloon.

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Alive again, he sets out on an obsessive-and deadly-quest to find his lost love.

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But, I do know that, love this calling though I do, I have never been so obsessive about politics that I see it as the only thing there is in my life!

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