Research Catalog

Title

Eline Vere : a novel of The Hague / Louis Couperus ; translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke ; afterword by Paul Binding.

Author

Couperus, Louis, 1863-1923

Publication

Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books ; [Minneapolis, Minn.] : Distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2010.

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Additional Authors

Rilke, Ina.

Description

523 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

• "The author's touch is always delicate and sure in handling the lights and shades of thought and emotion."--The New York Times Book Review.
• "[H]is sympathy for the hybrid, the impure and the ambiguous gave him a peculiarly modern voice. It is extraordinary that this Dutch dandy, writing in the flowery language of fin-de-siecle decadence, should still sound so fresh."--The New York Review of Books.
• Couperus can fittingly be seen as the Dutch answer to Oscar Wilde."--Conjunctions.
• Couperus binds both irony and spiritual redemption."--The Daily Telegraph.
• "The Hidden Force is a tragedy of colonialism essentially comtemporary with, and fully comparable to, the work of Joseph Conrad."--Chicago Tribune.
• Louis Couperus was catapulted to prominence in 1889 with Eline Vere, a psychological masterpiece inspired by Flaubert and Tolstoy. Eline Vere is a young heiress: dreamy, impulsive, and subject to bleak moods. 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. 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. Only Couperus - as much a member of the elite socialite circle of fin-de-siecle 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. 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. --Book Jacket.

Uniform Title

Eline Vere. English

Alternative Title

Eline Vere.

Subject

Dutch fiction > 19th century > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780981955742
• 0981955746

LCCN

^^2009040973

OCLC

445483716

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library