Eline Vere - A Novel of the Hague

Zusatztext 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-siècle decadence! should still sound so fresh. —The New York Review of Books [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. He's brilliant. —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. —Times Literary Supplement Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Louis Couperus! widely considered one of the greatest Dutch novelists! gained prominence in 1889 with this psychological novel inspired emile 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. The dining room, doing service as a dressing room, was a hive of activity. Before a cheval-glass stood Frédérique van Erlevoort, her hair loose and flowing, looking very pale under a light dusting of rice-powder, her eyebrows darkened with a single brushstroke of black. Zusammenfassung 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 m...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Louis Couperus, Louis/ Rilke Couperus, Ina Rilke
• Collaboration: Ina Rilke (Traduction)
• Edition: Random House USA
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.08.2010
• EAN: 9780981955742
• ISBN: 978-0-9819557-4-2
• Pages: 523
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Catégorie: Littérature > Littérature (récits)