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''Eline Vere'' is an 1889 novel by the Dutch writer Louis Couperus. It was adapted into the 1991 film '' Eline Vere'', directed by Harry Kümel. Couperus wrote ''Eline Vere'' in the house at
Surinamestraat 20, The Hague Surinamestraat 20 in The Hague is the location of the house where the Dutch writer Louis Couperus wrote his novel ''Eline Vere''. The father of Couperus, John Ricus Couperus (1816-1902) gave orders to build this house; he first sold his estate ...
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Reception

The naturalistic novel, first published in a daily newspaper (1888–1889), instantly established Couperus as a household name in the Netherlands. It has been in print ever since. In Dutch, there have been about thirty editions until 2010, two adaptations for the theatre and one for film. Composer
Alexander Voormolen Alexander Nicolaas Voormolen (3 March 1895 in Rotterdam – 12 November 1980 in Leidschendam) was a Dutch composer. Education He was born as the son of Rotterdam chief of police Willem Voormolen and studied piano with Willem Petri, Willem an ...
dedicated his ''Nocturne for Eline'' (1957) to the protagonist of the novel. It has been translated into English (twice), into Norwegian and into Urdu. After the publication of the translation by Ina Rilke, the book was reviewed in ''
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'' in 2010: "Couperus is a fine, driving storyteller even when he's off telling fairy stories in some
symbolist Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and real ...
landscape as in the rather mimsy ''Psyche''. He wrote ''Eline Vere'' for serialisation, so it has the energy of the great Victorian novels without the melodrama, something astounding spread over 600 careful pages. ... Rediscovered novels usually make you realise why they were lost in the first place, but ''Eline Vere'' is an exception: a pleasure we've missed for far too long."


See also

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1889 in literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1889. Events *January – H. G. Wells begins to teach science at Henley House School, north London, where his pupils include A. A. Milne, whose father runs the sch ...
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Dutch literature Dutch language literature () comprises all writings of literary merit written through the ages in the Dutch language, a language which currently has around 23 million native speakers. Dutch-language literature is the product of the Netherlands, ...


References

1889 novels Novels by Louis Couperus Novels set in the 1880s Novels set in the Netherlands Dutch novels adapted into films Novels first published in serial form Vere, Eline Vere, Eline Vere, Eline {{1880s-novel-stub