Couperus
Americannoun
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Set in the colonial East Indies, the book was written by Louis Couperus, whom van Hove compares to Thomas Mann.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 26, 2015
The dead weight of inheritance, always a psychological fascination for Couperus, becomes doubly fascinating when one generation after another inherits an undwindling legacy of divine, ironic whim.
From Majesty A Novel by Couperus, Louis
The first member of the new Dutch school to be presented, in the following pages, to English readers, is Louis Marie Anne Couperus.
From Footsteps of Fate by Couperus, Louis
In 1884 a little volume of lyrics, and in 1886 the more important Orchids, showed in Couperus a poet whose sympathies were at first entirely with the new school.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
Another writer, of a totally different class, resembling Couperus only in his defiance of the ruling system of aesthetics, is the prominent Ultramontane politician and bishop, E.J.A.M.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
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