Louis Couperus

Louis Marie Anne Couperus ( born June 10, 1863 in The Hague, † July 16, 1923 in De Steeg ) was a Dutch author.

Life

He was the youngest of eleven children of Catharina Jonkvrouwe Geertruida Reynst and Dr. John Ricus Couperus, retired Judicial Council to the two High Courts in the former Dutch East Indies (Indonesia).

Louis Couperus spent most of his life abroad, as a schoolchild in Batavia, as an adult on his extensive travels in Scandinavia, England, Germany, France, Spain, Dutch East Indies, Japan and especially in his beloved Italy, which it extremely fascinated. Forced by the First World War, he returned in 1915 to the Hague, where he was offered in De Steeg of his friends, a house which he inhabited but only for a short time. He died there on July 16, 1923, a few weeks after his 60th birthday, probably due to a pleural inflammation and blood poisoning.

Works

The impressive number of historical and psychological novels, short stories, travelogues, essays, feature articles and poems that left Couperus, testify to an amazing variety and not least by an exceptionally industrious writer. For his literary work he received the 1897 Officer Order of Orange -Nassau and 1923, on his 60th birthday, the Order of the Netherlands Lion.

In addition to its countless shorter works were his most important novels, which have been translated as far back as the author in different languages ​​:

  • Eline Vere (1889 )
  • Fate ( 1890) - Noodlot (not translated into German, English: Fate )
  • Psyche ( 1898/deutsch: 1924)
  • The Silent Force ( 1900)
  • The slow lines of gradualism (1900)
  • Babel ( 1901/deutsch: 1911)
  • Yahweh (1902 )
  • The books of little souls (1901/1903, not translated)
  • Dionysus ( 1905/deutsch: 1920 )
  • De mountain light van / Heliogabalus ( 1905-1906/deutsch: 1916)
  • Of old people, the things that pass by (1906 )
  • The unfortunate ( 1915/deutsch: 1921)
  • The Comedians ( 1917/deutsch: 1919 )
  • The floating chessboard ( 1917/deutsch: 1921)
  • Xerxes or Arrogance ( 1919/deutsch: 1919 )
  • Iskander ( 1920/deutsch: 1926 )
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