Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg. Van Oudijck is the commissioner of an East Javanese residency of the Dutch East Indies. Eerie, lush, psychologically acute, this Dutch masterpiece from (in a fine new translation by Paul Vincent) is one of the great novels of the.
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Divorced, he has four children from his first wife: Otto van Oudijck experiences this personally. Why do we bring all the paraphernalia of our costly civilization with us, considering that it will never last?
The East Indies of his youth symbolize an overwhelming nature in which the fearful person becomes a stranger to himself. One where fate strikes ruthlessly.
Although the character of Orlando in the serials is deeply embedded in real facts and forc, it is probably about a great, but fictional love.
the hidden force
The universality of this theme helps to prevent his work from ever becoming dated. His journalistic work brought Couperus a large audience. He is blind and deaf to the slumbering powers of the East Indian people and countryside. In the many journalistic serials he wrote about his life in the South during the first decade of the twentieth century, he recreated himself as a wanderer, who experienced an intimate and ideal friendship with a young Italian businessman named Orlando.
We acknowledge and remind and warn you that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. But Couperus doesn’t go too far overboard with the supernatural and for the most part it is a believable touch, as the locals are also very superstitious.
He is also oblivious to what is happening in his own household. Indeed, Van Oudijck lives in blissful or willful ignorance of most of what is going on in his household: She is amoral but not really or at least usually bad: The cultures remain irreconcilable, the colonial experiment doomed to failure.
February External links: What is left is a powerless western man in the Indonesian forest. Louis Couperus spent much of his younger life in the Dutch East Indies modern Indonesiaand many of his novels and stories are set either here, or in The Hague where he was born, though his work also contains impressions of Italy, Africa and China, the fruits of his tireless….
Nor has he an eye for local culture and traditions.
And she has an affair with her stepson Theo — at the same time. It is extraordinary that this Dutch dandy, writing in the flowery language of fin-de-siecle decadence, should still sound so fresh.
The Hidden Force: A Story of Modern Java by Louis Couperus
The powerful Dutch colonizer is unable to deal forcee the hidden force that is present in the background and is slowly causing damage. The Hidden Force – UK. When he was forced to return to the Netherlands in due to the war, he discovered that he was a celebrated author. Not yet fifty when the book begins, he is successful and good at his job he’s been resident here for some five years and likes his life; he’s not even that eager to get a promotion and move up to being the resident in Batavia Jakarta or a similarly important place — and he jidden the thought of retiring in the Netherlands, where he would be pretty much a nobody, and know no one.
Even today, it is surprising how candidly he dared to write about it, without prudery or moralism. hidddn
For the colony, which he wants to bring couperua a higher level. Otto van Oudijck governs his province with vigour. The other main character is Eva, the wife of the residency’s secretary. Each one of them develops into the symbol of a state of mind, an attitude towards the world. The novel … is surprisingly fresh and lively. But then he constantly gets letters denouncing most everyone Use your log in.
Please send a request for log in data here. Cuperus Hidden Force is a tragedy of colonialism essentially comtemporary with, and fully comparable to, the work of Joseph Conrad Bookworld. She has an affair with Addy. Rate Please give your input here. With an astounding psychological insight and much empathy, Couperus describes how his characters, each in their own way, start looking for louia new meaning in their lives, new relationships with each other.