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100 1 $aCouperus, Louis,$d1863-1923.
240 10 $aEline Vere.$lEnglish
245 10 $aEline Vere :$ba novel of The Hague /$cLouis Couperus ; translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke ; afterword by Paul Binding.
250 $a1st Archipelago Books ed.
260 $aBrooklyn, NY :$bArchipelago Books ;$a[Minneapolis, Minn.] :$bDistributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution,$c2010.
300 $a523 p. ;$c23 cm.
520 $a"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.
520 $a"[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.
520 $aCouperus can fittingly be seen as the Dutch answer to Oscar Wilde."--Conjunctions.
520 $aCouperus binds both irony and spiritual redemption."--The Daily Telegraph.
520 $a"The Hidden Force is a tragedy of colonialism essentially comtemporary with, and fully comparable to, the work of Joseph Conrad."--Chicago Tribune.
520 $aLouis 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.
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