![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Award-winning translator Ina Rilke’s new translation of this Madame Bovary of The Netherlands will reintroduce to the English-speaking world the greatest Dutch novelist of his generation. Only Couperus - as much a member of the elite socialite circle of fin-de-siècle The Hague as he was a virulent critic of its oppressive confines - could have filled this “Novel of The Hague” with so many superbly rendered and vividly imagined characters from a milieu now long forgotten. When she accepts the marriage proposal of a family friend, she is thrust into a life that looks beyond the confines of The Hague, and her overpowering, ever-fluctuating desires grow increasingly blurred and desperate. Author of The hidden force, The later life, Eline Vere, De stille kracht, Extaze, Van oude mensen de dingen die voorbijgaan, Psyche, Old people and the. Though beloved among her large coterie of friends and relations, there are whispers that she is an eccentric: she has been known to wander alone in the park as well indulge in long, lazy philosophical conversations with her vagabond cousin. Eline Vere is a young heiress: dreamy, impulsive, and subject to bleak moods. Louis Couperus was catapulted to prominence in 1889 with Eline Vere, a psychological masterpiece inspired by Flaubert and Tolstoy. ![]()
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