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We have a lot of work to do so we don´t always have time to publish about the books of Couperus. But... here we are again with two descriptions of the books of our great writer!<br />
First we like you to have a look at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy._A_book_of_happiness">Ecstacy</a>, a book of happiness and second to a selection of poems written by Couperus, called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williswinde">Williswinde</a>. We hope you enjoy!<br />
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Footsteps of faith was one of the first novels of Couperus that was translated to English (by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Bell">Clara Bell</a>). It was also the book that caught the attention of no one less than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde">Oscar Wilde.</a> Do you want to read more about one the first novels written by Couperus? You can! <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footsteps_of_faith">Here!</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18006152753800584084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88755257812744326.post-91046316894671983092013-02-12T06:20:00.002-08:002013-02-12T06:22:00.255-08:00Shadows of beauty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><em>Shadows of beauty</em></strong> is a book of 17 short stories written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Couperus">Louis Couperus</a> and published in 1912. Couperus was inspired by classical antiquity when he wrote it. We don't think this book has ever been translated into English - a pity but in any case now it's possible to read about it <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows_of_beauty">here!</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18006152753800584084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88755257812744326.post-60150378574620379542013-02-11T10:06:00.000-08:002013-02-11T10:08:20.852-08:00Orchids, a collection of prose and poetry <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><em>Orchids, a collection of prose and poetry</em></strong> was the second book Couperus published. It consisted, just as the previous book, <span dir="auto"><em>A ribbon of poems,</em> of verses. It was rather difficult for us to find something about this book in Dutch let alone English. So we searched our books and the internet, translated what we found in English and wrote an article about this book. We even read some verses ourselves! And after reading we had to remind ourselves that this book was written over more than 100 years ago!</span><br />
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Strange as it may seem for a much translated autor as Louis Couperus, in the English language we couldn't find much information about Couperus' debut as a writer! Well, fine, we wrote it ourselves and published it on the English Wikipedia as soon as we finished it! So now you can also read all about <em>A ribbon of poems</em>! Below the introduction, the rest can be found <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_ribbon_of_poems">here. </a> We hope you enjoy!</div>
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<strong><em>A ribbon of poems</em></strong> (Dutch: <i>Een lent van vaerzen</i>) was the literary debut of Dutch writer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Couperus" title="Louis Couperus">Louis Couperus</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_ribbon_of_poems#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> The collection of poetry <i>A ribbon of poems</i> (23 poems) received a good review by critic J.H. van Hall in the Dutch literary magazine "The Gids"; Van Hall compared Couperus' poetry with those written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Heine" title="Heinrich Heine">Heinrich Heine</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everhardus_Johannes_Potgieter" title="Everhardus Johannes Potgieter">Everhardus Johannes Potgieter</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Corneliszoon_Hooft" title="Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft">Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft</a>; Jan ten Brink, Couperus' teacher and later professor at the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Leiden" title="University of Leiden">University of Leiden</a> drew comparisons with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantijn_Huygens" title="Constantijn Huygens">Constantijn Huygens</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_ribbon_of_poems#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> Not every critic however was that positive; Couperus' debut was also termed "contrived and effeminate".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_ribbon_of_poems#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_ribbon_of_poems#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup></div>
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Van Deventer is one of the interesting residents of Surinamestraat 20 and someone to be proud of too! He bought Surinamestraat 20 from John Ricus Couperus, father of Louis, in 1903. Van Deventer was an important person in the Dutch East Indies and a leading figure in the Dutch Ethical Policy Movement. Do you want to know more? <br />
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Well, we've written an interesting article about him! You can read all about him<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Theodor_van_Deventer"> here</a>. To get us in the mood, below is a small part of his interesting life: <strong></strong><br />
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In 1899 Van Deventer wrote a very influential article, called "Een Ereschuld" (a debt of honour) in the Dutch magazine "De Gids". In this article Van Deventer stated that the Netherlands had a dept of honor of nearly 190 million gulden opposite the Dutch East Indies and had to pay for this dept of honor.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-31"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Theodor_van_Deventer#cite_note-31">[31]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-32"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Theodor_van_Deventer#cite_note-32">[32]</a></sup> When the Dutch East Indian budget was discussed in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Netherlands)" title="House of Representatives (Netherlands)">House of Representatives</a> a lot of attention was payed to Van Deventer's article, although not all members agreed with the content of the article.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-33"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Theodor_van_Deventer#cite_note-33">[33]</a></sup> Van Deventer was appointed member of the editorial board of "The Gids" as of January 1, 1901.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-34"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Theodor_van_Deventer#cite_note-34">[34]</a></sup><br />
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<strong>John Ricus Couperus</strong> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta" title="Jakarta">Jakarta</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_February" title="24 February">24 February</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1816" title="1816">1816</a> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hague" title="The Hague">The Hague</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_October" title="13 October">13 October</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902" title="1902">1902</a>) was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Dutch</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawyer" title="Lawyer">lawyer</a>, member of the Council of Justice in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padang" title="Padang">Padang</a> and member of the High Military Court of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_Indies" title="Dutch East Indies">Dutch East Indies</a>. He was also the father of the Dutch writer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Couperus" title="Louis Couperus">Louis Couperus</a> and knight in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Netherlands_Lion" title="Order of the Netherlands Lion">Order of the Netherlands Lion</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-kranten_a_1-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Menke66/sandbox3#cite_note-kranten_a-1"><span style="font-size: small;">[1]</span></a></sup><br />
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Couperus was a son of Petrus Theodorus Couperus (1787-1823), a landdrost (yeoman) at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Java" title="West Java">Preanger</a> lands and landowner at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java" title="Java">Java</a>, and Catharina Rica Cranssen (1795-1845). After the early death of his father his mother remarried <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General" title="General">general</a> Carel Jan Riesz (1791-1865), who was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komtur" title="Komtur">komtur</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_William_Order" title="Military William Order">Military William Order</a> and was active during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo" title="Battle of Waterloo">Battle of Waterloo</a> and during <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Netherlands_East_Indies_Army" title="Royal Netherlands East Indies Army">military campaigns</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_Indies" title="Dutch East Indies">Dutch East Indies</a>. When Couperus was three years old he and his brothers Henry (5 years old) and Piet (4 years old) were send to the Netherlands, accompanied by friends of their parents (October 20, 1819).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Menke66/sandbox3#cite_note-2"><span style="font-size: small;">[2]</span></a></sup> In Holland Couperus was placed under guardianship of a merchant in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a>, called I.W. Bagman, who placed Couperus at the home of C.G. Merkus, a preacher of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walloon_church" title="Walloon church">Walloon church</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dordrecht" title="Dordrecht">Dordrecht</a>. Later this family moved to Amsterdam. In 1826 Couperus was send to a boarding school in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noordwijk" title="Noordwijk">Noordwijk</a>, later in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarssen" title="Maarssen">Maarssen</a>. In May 1829 his stepfather, who with his wife had returned to the Netherlands, was appointed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel" title="Colonel">colonel</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Netherlands_East_Indies_Army" title="Royal Netherlands East Indies Army">Dutch East Indian Army</a> and moved with his wife back to Batavia. Couperus was send to the vicar Koorders and became a student at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenaeum_Illustre_of_Amsterdam" title="Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam">Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam</a> in 1832.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DutchFrederic_3-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Menke66/sandbox3#cite_note-DutchFrederic-3"><span style="font-size: small;">[3]</span></a></sup><br />
Couperus was also active as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composer" title="Composer">composer</a> in his youth as well as later in his life; during his time at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenaeum_Illustre_of_Amsterdam" title="Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam">Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam</a> he visited the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_opera" title="French opera">French opera</a>, played the piano, sang and took lessons in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony" title="Harmony">harmony</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_composition" title="Musical composition">composition</a>. He also founded a music group, "Musicae Artis Sacrum". <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DutchFrederic_3-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Menke66/sandbox3#cite_note-DutchFrederic-3"><span style="font-size: small;">[3]</span></a></sup> In 1837 two of his compostions, <i>Passy, Paroles de Béranger</i> and <i>Bitte zum Amor</i> were published at C.J. Reinhold jr. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a>);<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Menke66/sandbox3#cite_note-4"><span style="font-size: small;">[4]</span></a></sup> He also made compositions for family use only and wrote poetry, including but not limited to: <i>Illusions d'un Étudiant</i> and <i>Sea Thoughts</i> (written while on his way to the Dutch East Indies in 1837). Two musical compositions are preserved, <i>Rêverie d’un Grandpère</i> and the <i>Influenza Walse</i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Menke66/sandbox3#cite_note-5"><span style="font-size: small;">[5]</span></a></sup><br />
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Futher reading?<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ricus_Couperus"> See here</a>!<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surinamestraat_20,_The_Hague">Surinamestraat 20</a>, where <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Couperus">Louis Couperus</a> wrote<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eline_Vere"> Eline Vere,</a> is <a href="http://www.funda.nl/koop/s-gravenhage/huis-423253-surinamestraat-20/">for sale.</a> </div>
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This house represents a major part of the history of Dutch literature. Articles have been written about Couperus, students have written their thesis about his books, but the house where Couperus wrote one of his most important novels is for sale. And the Dutch governement will not supply funds to buy it and keep this house as a true monument of the richness of Dutch culture. In this blog we, the<a href="http://www.couperushuis.nl/"> Louis Couperus Foundation</a>, will provide you with a series of sketches about Couperus' life and his importance to Dutch culture. </div>
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We hope you enjoy reading as much as we do writing about Louis Couperus and his true value, not only for the Netherlands, but also for countries where his books were translated, such as England, Germany and the United States. As for a start<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Couperus"> we've complete rewritten Louis Couperus' article on Wikipedia</a> - enjoy!</div>
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