Couperus

Set in the colonial East Indies, the book was written by Louis Couperus, whom van Hove compares to Thomas Mann.

Louis Couperus is a Dutch author, and he has written the most delightful work entitled “Psyche.”

This delicate story is Louis Couperus’ third novel.

In the present story, Couperus reverts, at times and in a measure, to that earlier, “sensitivist” method which he abandoned almost wholly in Small Souls and which he again abandons in The Twilight of the Souls and in Dr. Adriaan, the third and fourth novels of the series.

Gorter remained tenebrous, Hel�ne Swarth-Lapidoth still gorgeous; the others, with the exception of Couperus, showed symptoms of sinking into silence.