Talk:Louis Couperus/Archive 1

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Archive 1

Seamy?

I removed a few words that, to me, suggest a point of view. 'Seamy' means something like 'sordid', if I understand it well. De Berg van Licht (not translated into English, only into German, Hungarian and Czech) is a grand, surging novel in which a lot of blood is shed, but not a sordid one. Furthermore, did Couperus have a large library? I think not much is known about it, apart from the question 'How large is large?'. Couperus must have read a vast amount of books, but that is not the same.

His goods being 'endlessly' moved about? The Couperus couple lived in hotels and pensions mostly, but they were the same pensions for many years. They traveled a lot, but I doubt if they took their chairs and desks, or even their library with them all the time when they went to Spain for a month (for instance). Glatisant (talk) 08:20, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

"Furthermore, did Couperus have a large library? " Parts of his library survived: mostly classic authors. Of course he had many more books (stayed in The Hague when they travelled I thought) but these seem to have disappeared.B77 (talk) 15:48, 29 October 2009 (UTC)