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and deals with the life of widow Cecile van Erven who meets Taco
Quaerts. This Taco Quaerts sees in her an exalted love while Van Erven longs for a more humane role in his life. In 1894 a translation into German was made by Freia Norden, however in the
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was not. Probably in an ironic response to the review of Van Eeden, Couperus wrote him a letter, saying that he knew a lady who was a psychic and asked Van Eeden if he could decipher her handwriting. Meanwhile,
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sufficient to be published as a separate book and contacted publisher L.J. Veen. Veen made him an offer, which
Couperus first refused but later Veen made a better offer which Couperus accepted.
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I think of a large star with a single line of a cloud to the upper left and the title should be positioned at the bottom right. Do you happen to know anyone who could make a drawing like that?
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the good triumphs although
Couperus' glorified a form of platonic love in which the male figure rejects sexuality and so the heroine must satisfy herself with an incomplete love life.
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that the book was frail, delicate, mystical, written with a light, yet firm touch which saved it from falling into those twin perils of absurdity and pathos which hedged it around.
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Couperus was rather upset and not amused by the review of Van Deyssel, because, as Couperus later wrote:
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was sublime, but that I had written it by mistake, and that one of them should have written it.
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813:Ecstasy: A Study of Happiness
706:Louis Couperus. Een biografie
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708:(in Dutch). Amsterdam.
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570:'Kunst en letteren'
491:'Kunst en letteren'
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191:psychological novel
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