biography
| name: |
Couperus, Louis Marie Anne
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pronunciation:
[kooperus]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1863–1923)
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| biography:
| Novelist and poet, born in The Hague, W Netherlands. He spent part of his childhood in Java, Indonesia, and studied Dutch in The Netherlands. A contemporary of the Movement of the Eighties (Beweging van Tachtig), his poetry was rejected by the circle around the magazine De Nieuwe Gids, although his prose has the stylistic characteristics of the movement. His debut Eline Vere (1889) is the best example of Dutch naturalism, worthy of being mentioned in one breath with Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Couperus wrote psychological realistic novels, historical novels, and journalistic stories and sketches. Possibly because of his decadence, dandyism, and sexual preference, he was neglected in his day, but his importance, nationally and internationally, as one of the great writers of the late 19th-c was belatedly recognized in the 1930s. |
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