From “Sepulchral City” to “Open City”: Hetero-Images of Brussels in Joseph Conrad and Teju Cole Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Although Brussels does not figure as prominently in literature in English as do the more iconic cosmopolitan cities of London and New York, when the flâneur-narrator of Open City (2011) keeps up his ambulatory habits in the Belgian capital during a brief holiday from his psychiatry residency at a Manhattan hospital, Teju Cole joins a long line of authors from across the world who have drawn inspiration from Brussels (Acke and Bekers, eds., ...