Eline Vere: A Novel of the Hague
Autor Louis Couperus Paul Binding Traducere de Ina Rilkeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2010
"There are many chapters in Inevitable … which mark the book as an exquisite example of the fictionists art. The author's touch is always delicate and sure in handling the lights and shades of thought and emotion. … There is not a poorly drawn character among the score or so in the book"
—The New York Times Book Review
Louis Couperus, widely considered one of the greatest Dutch novelists, gained prominence in 1889 with this psychological novel inspired Émile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, and Leo Tolstoy. Eline, withdrawn and subject to depression, accepts the marriage proposal of a family friend, only to break off the engagement, convinced that her sickly but charismatic cousin Vincent is in love with her. Vincent drifts in other directions. She travels, dreams, and deteriorates. Moving back to the Hague, she lives alone in a hotel, where, during a nervous crisis, she takes what may or may not be an accidental overdose. Award-winning translator Ina Rilke's new translation of this masterpiece will be a literary event.
Louis Couperus (1863-1923) spent much of his youth in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), and many of his novels and stories are set either there or in The Hague, where he was born, though his work also contains glimpses of Italy, Africa, and China, where he traveled extensively. He gained prominence in 1889 with Eline Vere. His novels The Hidden Force, Old People and the Things That Pass, Ecstasy, and Inevitable are also celebrated. Couperus was the greatest Dutch novelist of his generation.
—The New York Times Book Review
Louis Couperus, widely considered one of the greatest Dutch novelists, gained prominence in 1889 with this psychological novel inspired Émile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, and Leo Tolstoy. Eline, withdrawn and subject to depression, accepts the marriage proposal of a family friend, only to break off the engagement, convinced that her sickly but charismatic cousin Vincent is in love with her. Vincent drifts in other directions. She travels, dreams, and deteriorates. Moving back to the Hague, she lives alone in a hotel, where, during a nervous crisis, she takes what may or may not be an accidental overdose. Award-winning translator Ina Rilke's new translation of this masterpiece will be a literary event.
Louis Couperus (1863-1923) spent much of his youth in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), and many of his novels and stories are set either there or in The Hague, where he was born, though his work also contains glimpses of Italy, Africa, and China, where he traveled extensively. He gained prominence in 1889 with Eline Vere. His novels The Hidden Force, Old People and the Things That Pass, Ecstasy, and Inevitable are also celebrated. Couperus was the greatest Dutch novelist of his generation.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780981955742
ISBN-10: 0981955746
Pagini: 523
Dimensiuni: 162 x 225 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS
ISBN-10: 0981955746
Pagini: 523
Dimensiuni: 162 x 225 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS
Recenzii
"[A] masterpiece … The Hague's greatest writer, turn-of-the-century Louis Couperus … captured the city in a famous novel, Eline Vere. … For its roomy, chatty descriptions of life among the moneyed classes, it is a Buddenbrooks avant la lettre; for its restless heroine, trapped by social obligations, it's a Dutch Madame Bovary. … in Ina Rilke's smart new translation, it anticipates the questions that would become so important for women in the decades to come: no longer content in a purely domestic world, what were they to do with themselves?"
—Ben Moser, Harper's
"Electric … Astounding … A pleasure we've missed for far too long. … It has the energy of the great Victorian novels without the melodrama. … Couperus is a fine, driving storyteller … who wrote wonderfully about the small things that add up to a person's fate. … He's brilliant on the ebb and flow and fights of family life … The same detail that absorbs his characters … comes to absorb his readers, too."
—Michael Pye, The Scotsman
"Superb … Couperus handles his many characters with masterly ease and keeps his prose smooth, light, and flowing: Ina Rilke's translation cannot be praised highly enough. … With Eline Vere the estimable Archipelago Books continues to make available in English some of the most important works of European literature."
—Michael Dirda, The Wall Street Journal
"The portrait of their unfolding affair is a masterful observation of the beauty and illogic of romantic love."
—Clare Clark, Times Literary Supplement
"The Hidden Force is a tragedy of colonialism essentially contemporary with, and fully comparable to, the work of Joseph Conrad."
—Chicago Tribune
"His 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-siècle 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
—Ben Moser, Harper's
"Electric … Astounding … A pleasure we've missed for far too long. … It has the energy of the great Victorian novels without the melodrama. … Couperus is a fine, driving storyteller … who wrote wonderfully about the small things that add up to a person's fate. … He's brilliant on the ebb and flow and fights of family life … The same detail that absorbs his characters … comes to absorb his readers, too."
—Michael Pye, The Scotsman
"Superb … Couperus handles his many characters with masterly ease and keeps his prose smooth, light, and flowing: Ina Rilke's translation cannot be praised highly enough. … With Eline Vere the estimable Archipelago Books continues to make available in English some of the most important works of European literature."
—Michael Dirda, The Wall Street Journal
"The portrait of their unfolding affair is a masterful observation of the beauty and illogic of romantic love."
—Clare Clark, Times Literary Supplement
"The Hidden Force is a tragedy of colonialism essentially contemporary with, and fully comparable to, the work of Joseph Conrad."
—Chicago Tribune
"His 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-siècle 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
Notă biografică
Louis Couperus (1863-1923) spent much of his youth in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), and many of his novels and stories are set either there or in The Hague, where he was born, though his work also contains glimpses of Italy, Africa, and China, where he traveled extensively. He gained prominence in 1889 with Eline Vere. His novels The Hidden Force, Old People and the Things That Pass, Ecstasy, and Inevitable are also celebrated. Couperus was the greatest Dutch novelist of his generation. Ina Rilke translates Dutch, French, and Flemish literature. The writers she has translated include Hafid Bouazza, Hella Haasse, W. F. Hermans, Arthur Japin, Erwin Mortier, Cees Nooteboom, and Dai Sijie. She has won the Vondel Translation Prize, the Scott Moncrieff Prize, and the Flemish Culture Prize for Translation.
Descriere
Madame Bovary of the Netherlands.