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by Louis Couperus Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos Original title: De stille kracht
Louis Couperus wrote The Hidden Force around 1900 while he was visiting the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia), then one of the Netherlands’ colonies. The novel is also set there, and Couperus’s first-hand experience clearly shows. (more...)
by Louis Couperus Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos Original title: Van oude menschen, de dingen die voorbijgaan
Old People is a novel from the beginning of the twentieth century, by an author who was fêted at the time, especially in Britain, as a major international writer. It has a dark secret at its core, even though on the surface we detect very little action. (more...)