Old People and the Things That Pass - Couperus Louis

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Résumé :
Old People and the Things That Pass is a book by the superb Dutch writer Louis Couperus, who lived in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The story is ready the lives of antique humans and appears at issues like nostalgia, the passing of time, and how matters always trade. The radical takes location in The Hague and weaves together a wealthy tapestry of the characters' pasts, reminiscences, and the things that keep emotional price for them. Couperus delves into the complex international of human interactions and offers his characters a keen psychological understanding. The tale goes on because the older important characters address the modifications of their lives and think about how society has changed over time. The creator's writing is lovely and deeply personal, displaying the subtleties of all of us's feelings and thoughts. Couperus tells a transferring story that makes readers think about the not unusual issues of having older, losing a person close to you, and the effective electricity of memories. Old People and the Things That Pass is a timeless study what it means to be human, taking readers on a moving and notion-scary adventure through the lives of its characters. People nevertheless love Couperus's works due to the fact they make deep observations about lifestyles and how time movements forward without stopping.

Biographie:
Louis Marie-Anne Couperus was a Dutch author and poet who lived from June 10, 1863, to July 16, 1923. Lyric poems, psychological and historical novels, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, feuilletons, and sketches are just some of the types of writing he has done. Couperus is thought to be one of the most important people in Dutch writing. He was given the Tollensprijs (Tollens Prize) in 1923. Couperus and his wife took many trips in Europe and Asia, and he later wrote a series of travel books about those trips that came out every week. Louis Marie-Anne Couperus was born on June 10, 1863, at Mauritskade 11 in The Hague, Netherlands. She came from an Indo family that had been in the Dutch East Indies for a long time and was part of the colonial landed class. He was the eleventh and youngest child of Catharina Geertruida Reynst (1829-1893) and John Ricus Couperus (1816-1902). John Ricus Couperus was a well-known colonial official, lawyer, and landheer or lord of the private domain (particuliere land) of Tjikopo in Java. He was a great-grandson of Governor of Malacca Abraham Couperus (1752-1813) and Governor of Ambon Willem Jacob Cranssen (1762-1821). His father was related to them through a female line that goes back to the middle of the 18th century.