Majesty
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Louis Couperus
Louis Marie Anne Couperus (geboren am 10. Juni 1863 in Den Haag; gestorben am 16. Juli 1923 in De Steeg) war ein niederländischer Autor. Er war das jüngste von elf Kindern von Jonkvrouwe Catharina Geertruida Reynst und Dr. John Ricus Couperus, pensionierter Gerichtsrat an den beiden Hohen Gerichtshöfen im damaligen Niederländisch-Indien (Indonesien). Louis Couperus verbrachte den Großteil seines Lebens im Ausland, als Schulkind in Batavia, als Erwachsener auf seinen ausgedehnten Reisen in Skandinavien, England, Deutschland, Frankreich, Spanien, Niederländisch-Indien, Japan und vor allem in dem von ihm so geliebten Italien, das ihn überaus faszinierte. Am 9. September 1891 heiratete er Elisabeth Wilhelmina Johanna Baud. Den Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges feierte er als Erlösung aus Erstarrtheit. Infolge des Krieges kehrte er 1915 nach Den Haag zurück, wo ihm von seinen Freunden ein Haus in De Steeg angeboten wurde, das er jedoch nur für kurze Zeit bewohnte. Er starb dort am 16. Juli 1923, wenige Wochen nach seinem 60. Geburtstag, vermutlich an einer Lungenfellentzündung und einer Blutvergiftung. Die stattliche Reihe der historischen und psychologischen Romane, Erzählungen, Reiseberichte, Essays, Feuilletons und Gedichte, die Couperus hinterließ, zeugen von einer erstaunlichen Vielfalt und nicht zuletzt von einem außergewöhnlich arbeitsamen Schriftsteller. Für sein literarisches Werk erhielt er 1897 den Offiziersorden von Oranien-Nassau und 1923, an seinem 60. Geburtstag, den Orden des Niederländischen Löwen. Ein großer Teil seiner Romane und Novellen spielt in den Kreisen des Haager Großbürgertum, dem Umfeld also, in dem Couperus aufwuchs. Andere Werke beschäftigen sich mit dem Orient, insbesondere (aber nicht ausschließlich) mit Niederländisch-Indien. Sein Werk wird oft der Stilgattung des Impressionismus zugerechnet.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Majesteit is the first of Louis Couperus three Koningsromans (King's novels), respectively Majesteit (1893) / Wereldvrede (1895) / Hoge troeven (1896), that is two novels and a novella.After the revolutions overthrowing the monarchy in the late 18th Century in France, and renewed rebellion by the middle of the 19th Century, there was a growing pressure on the monarchy in various European countries to modernize or make place for a republic. Revolutionaries pressed forward with demands for change, pushing absolute monarchs to accept a more modest position in a constitutional monarchy or get lost. This is the political background to these three novels, an atmosphere as could still be felt for a few more decades, including Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes.Such actuality is quite unusual in the novelistic oevre of Louis Couperus, whose novels are often set in dreamlike settings of either the distant past, ancient Greece or Rome, or the distant colony, birthplace of the author, the colonial Dutch Indies (presently Indonesia).The Koningsromans are situated in the imaginary kingdom of Liparie, ruled by an aged imperial family. The three novels show the succesive demise of the old emperor, and how his son, the new emperor manages the new situation and salvages the empire.All three novels are written in Couperus high exalted style of decadence, in stunningly beautiful descriptions. The action and the development of the plot is highly credible, and very well done. Highly recommended.
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