Louis Couperus

Louis Couperus ( The Hague , June 10 1863 - Lane , July 16 1923 ) was a Dutch writer and one of the first representatives of the Dutch literary naturalism .

Couperus' work includes all sorts of different literary genres . He debuted with poetry, but then explained soon supervise psychological novels , which earned him the most notoriety. He also wrote culture fairy tales , historical novels and many travel stories and columns . In general, he is considered one of the most important writers of the canon of Dutch literature . The publication of his Complete Works (1987-1996) is considered the first Dutch text edition which has been established according to scientific standards.



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[ hide ]  *1 Biography  ==[Biography  edit ] == ===[Family  edit ] === Couperus was a member of the Dutch patriciaatsfamilie Couperus . This was originally a Frisian family of coopers, whose name later Latinized became Couperus. In the same family were several pastors for. It was once thought that the family descended from the Scottish family Cowper, but this hypothesis was refuted in 1962. [1]
 * 1.1 Family
 * 1.1.1 Family Relationships between Elisabeth Couperus-Baud and Louis Couperus
 * 1.2 Life
 * 1.2.1 Early years
 * 1.2.2 Travel, great novels
 * 1.2.3 Journalism smaller novels
 * 1.2.4 Life Evening
 * 1.2.5 Valuation
 * 2 Trivia
 * 3 Bibliography
 * 3.1 First printed editions
 * 3.2 Collected works
 * 3.3 Complete Works
 * 3.4 Published letters
 * 3.5 Adaptations
 * 3.6 Manuscripts
 * 3.7 Couperus in translation
 * 4 About Louis Couperus
 * 4.1 Biographies
 * 4.2 Studies
 * 4.3 Miscellaneous
 * 5 See also
 * 6 External links

He was the son of mr. John Ricus Couperus (1816-1902), member of the board of justice to Padang 1844 and Batavia in 1846, then justice at the Supreme Court in 1850, and Jkvr. Catharina Geertruida Reynst(1829-1893) daughter of Jan Cornelis Reijnst (1798-1871), acting Governor General of the Dutch East Indies . He was a grandson of the merchant Abraham Couperus (1752-1813), later governor of Dutch Malacca .

In these families was pretty much mutually married. Louis Couperus also married a relative, namely with his cousin Elisabeth Couperus-Baud . Both her grandmothers were sisters Couperus's father. ====[Family  Relationships between Elisabeth Couperus-Baud and Louis Couperus <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">]  ==== ===<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Life-  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ====Early years <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== Louis Couperus signed by Jan Vethattached to the Amsterdam in 1892Mansion on Mauritskade 43, The Hague<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Couperus was born on June 10, 1863 on the Mauritskade to The Hague (Den Haag), in the building at number 11. His three tribal names of the three sisters who had died before his birth. The little Louis was baptized on June 19 in the Église Wallonne in The Hague.The family Couperus departed on November 8, 1872 to the Dutch East Indies, there came on December 31, and settled in 1873 at theRoyale to Batavia .
 * Petrus Theodorus Couperus (1787-1823), married in 1812 Catharina Cranssen Rica (1795-1846), daughter of Willem Jacob Cranssen (1762-1821)
 * John Ricus Couperus (1816-1902), married Jkvr. Catharina Geertruida Reynst (1829-1893)
 * Marie Anne Louis Couperus (1863-1923), married in 1891 Elisabeth Wilhelmina Johanna Baud (1867-1960)
 * Wilhelmina Jacobina Theodora Couperus (1818-1899), married in 1837 Guillaume Louis Baud (1801-1891)
 * Jan Carel Willem Baud Ricus Theodore (1838-1883), married in 1865 Wilhelmina Johanna Petronella Steenstra Toussaint (1844-1927)
 * Elisabeth Wilhelmina Johanna Baud, married in 1891 Anne Marie Louis Couperus
 * Elisabeth Wilhelmina Petronella Couperus (1821-1889), married in 1839 Dr. Johan Daniel Abraham Steenstra Toussaint (1821-1876)
 * Johanna Wilhelmina Petronella Steenstra Toussaint (1844-1927), married in 1865 Jan Carel Willem Baud Ricus Theodore (1838-1883)
 * Elisabeth Wilhelmina Johanna Baud, married in 1891 Anne Marie Louis Couperus

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1874 Couperus began his training at the Gymnasium William III . He had at that time been in a relationship with Elisabeth Baud, his future wife. In 1878 the family returned to the Netherlands, where she first went to live on the Nassaukade in The Hague. In 1883 they moved to Nassauplein.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Couperus left in 1881, the HBS and studied for a further act MO Dutch . In 1883 also turned Elisabeth Baud back to the Netherlands, where she went to live with her ​​grandparents, Guillaume Louis Baud and Wilhelmina Jacobina Theodora Couperus . In May of the same year Couperus's father sold the estate Tjicoppo in the Dutch East Indies . Couperus began his literary career in July of that year with the poem Erin Neringstraat, which appeared in the journal Netherlands .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In August 1883, the eldest brother of Couperus, Peter Theodore, due to a mental illness admitted to an asylum. In 1884 the family moved to Suriname Street 20 . Couperus in June 1885 was appointed a member of the Society of Dutch Literature and received on December 6, 1886 his deed MO Dutch. In 1887 he continued his association with Elisabeth Baud and began his friendship with Gerrit Jäger .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In December of the same year he began his first novel, Eline Vere, a story the following year as a serial published in The Fatherlandand became very popular. On March 3, 1889 it was published as a book. This Couperus had his name as a writer definitively established. The book was an instant success and Couperus's death appeared this press 9. He already had two books of poetry published, which, however, remained almost unnoticed. ====Travel, great novels <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== Louis Couperus and his wifeElisabeth Couperus-Baud on the boat, the Prince of the Netherlands to India in October 1921<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Couperus made ​​in July 1889 a trip to Scandinavia with his brother Benjamin Vlielander Hein . In 1890 he befriended by Esq. JH Ram and he met Maurice Wagenvoort . He undertook in May of that year a trip to Carlsbad and received on August 12, the Thieme Price for Eline Vere.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On October 13, 1890 Couperus let unsubscribe from The Hague, with the intent to Paris to go. However, he returned in January 1891 to The Hague in connection with the death of GL Baud, the grandfather of Elizabeth. On September 9, 1891, he married her; the honeymoon went to Belgium . On September 21, the couple moved into the property Villa Minta to Roeltjesweg, since 1935 Couperusweg 15 in Hilversum . In December Couperus by Lambertus James Peat published by LJ Veen approached Extazeissue. Oscar Wilde translation read in 1892 of Couperus' Doom , Footsteps of Fate, and Couperus wrote a letter to congratulate him on his work. Elisabeth translated the same year, Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray . Gerrit Jäger is a stage adaptation of Couperus' Doom.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In February 1893 Couperus made ​​a trip to Italy, but on February 15, his mother died, so he had to come home. In September he traveled again to Italy, where he wrote his first trip impressions. In December he became editor of the magazine The Guide and the following year he moved into the house at the Jacob van der Does Street 123 in The Hague. In April 1894 he visited the writer he admired castle novels Ouida in Florence . His friend Gerrit Jäger committed in August of the same year suicide . Couperus occurred on April 30, 1895 as editor of The Guide and left again in October to Italy, where he was in Rome Pier Pander met. The following years he traveled too much, including to France , Germany and England (until 1898).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1897 Couperus canceled the membership of the Society of Dutch Literature because he was planning to go abroad. On August 31, the seventeenth anniversary of Queen Wilhelmina, he was appointed Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau . An appointment to the exclusive Order of the Dutch Lion was considered still too high for him.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1898 Couperus made ​​a trip to London and the following year, in February, a trip to the Dutch East Indies, where he stayed for some time in June to Tegal his sister Trudy and brother- resident Gérard de la Valette . Following the appointment of De la Valette to resident of Pasuruan Couperus and his wife stayed there in the residential home. Couperus began his novel The silent force which Valettes residency model for the home of one of the main characters, the resident Otto Oudijck.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In March 1900 Couperus returned to the Netherlands. In October of that year he moved with his wife to France, where they lived in their house "Villa Jules' at Nice . Couperus from there made ​​several trips to Italy , where he among other Florence and Rome visited. Died in 1901 his friend and mentor Jan ten Brink and in October 1902 his father.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In January 1903 founded Couperus, along with Cyril Buysse and William Gerard Nouhuys, the literary magazine Groot Netherlands on. Herein share a year later appeared his new major work, the family novel of old people, things that go beyond ... . In May 1904 LJ Veen bought for a large sum for the rights of all previously published works of Couperus.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Because his books sold poorly in those years, Couperus took to enroll for no more novels. He left in May 1906 Villa Jules to Venice and stayed in June in Bagni di Lucca, where he met Giulio Lodomez, he would leave later figure in novels like Orlando . He also visited Ouida in Camaiore .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Florence possessed Couperus to 1915 on large rooms in a Swiss pension on the third floor of the Palazzo Niccolini . ====Journalism, novels smaller <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In August 1908 began Couperus and his wife a house in Nice; Couperus wrote some short stories and began on November 27, 1909 with a weekly serial in The Fatherland . In May 1910 died French, a brother of Couperus, and the guest house in Nice was terminated in December. Until 1912 the couple undertook trips to Italy and Sicily, in 1913, followed by a three-month trip through Spain , along with 'Orlando'. In September of that year committed his friend Johan Hendrik Ram suicide . In March 1914 Couperus won the New Guide price for Antique tourism . He stayed in July 1914 for a while in Munich . Beginning in 1915, he returned to The Hague, where he first acted as reciter in art hall Kleykamp in The Hague. He moved to the High Wal 2 and again wrote serials for the Fatherland . In November he visited Cyril Buysse, where he is the writer and sportsman Henri van Booven met his future biographer .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the spring of 1916 painted Antoon van Welie his portrait; he also corresponded with the classicist WEJ Cooper about his essay on Couperus' work. He was the journalist SF van Oss adopted as an employee of theHaagse Post and held an interview with André de Ridder . In October 1917 was the premiere site of a stage adaptation by Elisabeth Couperus of Eline Vere ; the main actress in the play was Else Mauhs . ====<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);"><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[Life  Evening <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">]  ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Trudy died in May 1918, a sister of Couperus. In the disaster with the steamship Amstel was in April 1919 his favorite nephew French Vlielander Hein, to whom he had entrusted Ode, along with his wife Enny Peaceperished. Several months have Couperus wrote a new will, his third. It was as indicated in the previous wife as sole heir, but if they are deceased previously or simultaneously die with him, there would be two of his young nieces intended each thousand guilders. Furthermore, with the remaining power there would be a foundation must be created to reach out to a Couperus quoted price. In the interest of the capital would annually be given an amount of 'a Netherlands Chen literary (male or female), whereby should not only "considering the excellence of eenig to crown with the price of work, but certainly also on the more or less favorable conditions Financieele him or her who may be eligible for the prize. " If Elisabeth survive her husband, he gave her consideration 'without meanwhile Eenigen moods urge that regard to exercise its "focus on the intended foundation. But because Couperus indeed died earlier than his wife, the foundation was not achieved. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In October 1920 Couperus took a trip to Algiers in June 1921 one to London and in February 1922, as a special correspondent of the Haagse Post, he traveled across Sumatra , Java and Bali and stayed in Sumatra including at Governor LC Westenenk . In this time, in 1921, he was captured by the then world-renowned portrait photographer Emil Otto Hoppé . In February Couperus was seriously ill during a trip through Japan ;Then he was several weeks in a Japanese hospital. He retired in March 1923 in the house in the Sunneke Lane (Arnhemsestraatweg 13).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On the occasion of Couperus' sixtieth birthday had formed an organizing committee. There was a reception and Louis Couperus was offered about 12,000 guilders. The money was raised by more than 500 individuals and institutions for the construction of the house in Lane where he would withdraw. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3] Couperus's birthday was celebrated in The Hague, where Louis of Deyssel gave a speech and Couperus was eventually appointed Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Only a month later, the writer died of a lung disease [https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=nl&u=https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bronvermelding&usg=ALkJrhjhgOAgwqW8cXWMd_kezlQDk-GJ7Q#Bron_gevraagd <sup class="noprint nopopups" style="line-height:1;">[source? ]], probably a pleural inflammation with sepsis . On July 19 found the cremation at Westerveld place. The shaft was later transferred to Oak and Dunes . ====<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Rating  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== Binding Design Jan Toorop forPsyche<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During his life Couperus enjoyed not only in the Dutch language, but also beyond a certain reputation. His work has been widely translated, in Germany in particular Else Otten, especially in England by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4] and later in Italy by Giacomo Prampolini . Many of his books were abroad reprinted several times. The novel The Mountain of Light example sold in Germany (as Heliogabal) much better than in the Netherlands. He came to the attention of Oscar Wilde, who was very enthusiastic aboutFootsteps of Fate, the English translation of Doom. Couperus obtained at the life DA Thieme Price for Eline Vere , in 1914, the new guide price for Antique tourism and in 1923 the Tollens Prize for his entire oeuvre.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Toward the end of his life, Louis Couperus or a famous writer, but his books sold poorly. The appreciation of the work of Couperus began to walk back during his lifetime. After his death Couperus threatened to hit some time into oblivion. Some first editions were up in the 40's still available from stock. On his hundredth birthday in 1963 was a revival unmistakable. Especially for his novels was constantly renewed interest. The appearance of several biographies, including in particular those of Frédéric Bastet 1987 and adaptations of his books for stage, film and television have certainly contributed to this.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the last decades of the 20th century Couperus's work appeared in a fifty-piece scholarly edition, and the man and his work were devoted numerous articles and books. In 1993 it was Louis Couperus Society established to bring together fans of his work and to encourage scientific research into the life and work of the author. The Louis Couperus Society called the year 2013 from Louis Couperus Jubilee. The 150th birthday on June 10, 2013 was the reason to bring Louis Couperus (again) to the attention of the reader.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5] ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Trivia  Edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Bibliography  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Louis Couperus in Suriname Street (photo by Till PL)Eline Vere statue in The Hague byTheo van der Nahmer .Image of Couperus, made ​​by Kees Verkade, at the Lange Voorhout in The HagueStone on the birthplace of Couperus===First printed editions <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This is a list of publications in book form of the work of Couperus.
 * The father of Couperus, John Ricus Couperus, dropped in 1884 to Suriname Street 20 building a house, where the family moved later. The house still contains the marble and parquet flooring which the celebrated novelist walked. The original ceilings, wood paneling, stained-glass windows and an 'authentic toilets are still in. There is still a serving kitchen with original china cabinet. In 2007 this house was on the Suriname Street 20 sale. On the initiative of the economist Arnold Heertje and with the support of writer Hella Haase and poet Anton Korteweg a foundation was established which has tried unsuccessfully to buy the property and to address Louis Couperus House. The current Louis Couperus Museum , founded by Caroline de Westenholz , located since 1996 at the address Javastraat 17 in The Hague.
 * Already on the first day of the appearance of Eline Vere was in the newspaper of South Holland and The Hague, the first part of a positive review, written by his fellow townsman of Hogendorp Frederick (1843-1889) . Who also went to the (higher) circuits in which the book was playing, circles From Hogendorp, the son of the MP Frederick of Hogendorp (1802-1872) and a mistress of Queen Emma, must have known.
 * Willem Kloos wrote a very negative review about Couperus's poems, which he Couperus aanried seek his fortune elsewhere than in poetry.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">An exhaustive list of all the first and following pressures from Couperus (including reference to the first publications in newspapers and magazines (places of) manuscripts) provides:
 * 1884 - A ribbon of poems (poems)
 * 1885 - The beautiful sleeping beauty in the wood . Tale in two acts and six tafereelen for voice and piano
 * 1886 - Orchids (poems)
 * 1889 - Eline Vere . A novel Hague
 * 1890 - Doom
 * 1892 - Extaze. A book of happiness
 * 1892 - Eene illusion
 * 1893 - Majesty
 * 1894 - Travel Impressions
 * 1895 - World Peace
 * 1895 - Williswinde
 * 1896 - High strengths
 * 1896 - The Temptation of St. Anthony. To Gustave Flaubert. Fragments
 * 1897 - Metamorphosis
 * 1898 - Psyche
 * 1899 - Fidessa
 * 1900 - Along lines of gradualism
 * 1900 - The silent force
 * 1901 - Babel
 * 1901 - The books of little souls. Small Souls
 * 1902 - The books of little souls. Late life
 * 1902 - The books of little souls. Soul Twilight
 * 1903 - The books of little souls. The sacred knowledge
 * 1902 - About radiant barriers
 * 1903 - God and gods
 * 1904 - Dionyzos
 * 1905 - The Mountain of Light
 * 1906 - From old people, things that go beyond ...
 * 1908 - On the way of joy
 * 1910 - Van and about myself and others. First beam
 * 1911 - Ancient stories. Of gods and emperors, poets and hetaeras
 * 1911 - Short arabesques
 * 1911 - Antiques tourism. Novel Ancient Egypt
 * 1911 - The swallows ironed down upon ...
 * 1912 - Shades of Beauty
 * 1912 - Off white cities under blue skies. First beam
 * 1913 - Off white cities under blue skies. Second beam
 * 1913 - Herakles
 * 1914 - Van and about myself and others. Second beam
 * 1915 - Van and everything and everyone
 * 1915 - The unfortunate
 * 1916 - The twin brothers. Iambic adaptation of Plautus' Menaechmi
 * 1916 - Van and about myself and others. Third beam
 * 1917 - From and about myself and others. Fourth beam
 * 1917 - The comedians
 * 1917 - John and Florence
 * 1917 - Cruel portraits
 * 1918 - Der things soul
 * 1918 - Letters from the useless defenseless spectator
 * 1918 - Legend, myth and fantazie
 * 1918 - The amorous donkey
 * 1919 - The enchanter
 * 1919 - Elyata
 * 1919 - The ode
 * 1919 - Xerxes or pride
 * 1920 - Iskander. The novel by Alexander the Great
 * 1920 - Lucrezia
 * 1921 - With Louis Couperus in Africa
 * [1922] - The ring and the prince
 * 1922 [= March 1923] - The floating chessboard
 * 1923 - Eastward
 * 1923 - The old trofime
 * 1923 - Prose. First beam
 * 1924 - Prose. Second beam
 * 1924 - The cord of mercy and Japanese legends
 * 1925 - Nippon
 * 1925 - Prose. Third beam
 * 1931 - Romantic adventure
 * 1945 - Il Mago
 * 1957 - The binoculars
 * 1959 - The Naumachie
 * 1972 - Appian
 * 1973 - The tooveressen. Second idyll of Theocritus
 * 1975 - Legacy work
 * 1976 - Endymion
 * 1976 - Sabijnsche-rape
 * 1978 - Children Souvenirs
 * 1979 - A Hagenaar back in The Hague
 * 1979 - Memories of Spring
 * 1979 - Children
 * 1979 - The nights
 * 1979 - The spark
 * 1980 - A star
 * 1980 - When I was a little boy ...
 * 1980 - A soul
 * 1980 - his adopted son . A fragment

===Collected works <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Between 1952 and 1957 appeared the Collected works in a twelve-part edition; the edition used technique (particularly the modernized spelling and the choice of texts), this issue was immediately controversial. The subsidized publication could despite the so-riot Couperus not be stopped. In 1975 he published this book even a second edition. In the absence of "better" in publications between 1952 and 1996, many refer to this edition. The Collected Works consist of the following parts:
 * Marijke Stapert-Eggen, Directory Louis Couperus, 1992 and 1997² (3 parts: bibliography of the primary work of Louis Couperus)

===Complete Works <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Between 1987-1996 there appeared an edition of the complete works of Louis Couperus in 50 parts which now ranks as the standard edition, based on the most current edition technique and under the auspices of the Office Basisvoorziening Text editions of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences since 1993, under the auspices Department Neerlandica of the Huygens Institute of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. Thecomplete works of Louis Couperus consists of the following parts:
 * 1) Youth work Eline Vere; Short stories (1953)
 * 2) Doom, Ecstasy, Majesty; World Peace; High assets (1953)
 * 3) Metamorphosis, Psyche, Fidessa, along lines of gradualism (1953)
 * 4) Quiet power; Babel; Novellas, The sons of the sun; Jahve; Dionysos (1953)
 * 5) The books of small souls (1952)
 * 6) Of old people the things that pass away: The Mountain of Light (1952)
 * 7) On the way of joy Antiques tourism; Stories and arabesques (1954)
 * 8) Herakles; Stories and diary sheets, Off white cities under blue skies (1956)
 * 9) Lucrezia, The unfortunate; Legends and portraits (1956)
 * 10) The comedians; The amorous donkey The floating chessboard (1955)
 * 11) Xerxes; Iskander (1954)
 * 12) Stories (1957)

===Published letters <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1963 there appeared a special issue of the journal Measure in which a large number of (fragments of) letters were published:
 * 1) A ribbon of poems (1988)
 * 2) Orchids. A collection of poetry and prose (1989)
 * 3) Eline Vere. A novel Hague (1987)
 * 4) Doom (1990)
 * 5) Ecstasy. A Book of Happiness (1990)
 * 6) One illusion (1988)
 * 7) Majesty (1991)
 * 8) Travel Impressions (1988)
 * 9) World Peace (1991)
 * 10) Williswinde (1990)
 * 11) Hooge assets (1991)
 * 12) The Temptation of St. Anthony (1992)
 * 13) Metamorfoze (1988)
 * 14) Psyche (1992)
 * 15) Fidessa (1992)
 * 16) Along lines of gradualism (1989)
 * 17) Quiet power (1989)
 * 18) Babel (1993)
 * 19) The books of small souls. I and II (1991)
 * 20) The books of small souls. III and IV (1991)
 * 21) Overlighting thresholds (1993)
 * 22) God and Gods (1989)
 * 23) Dionyzos (1988)
 * 24) The Mountain of Light (1993)
 * 25) Of old people, things that go beyond ... (1988)
 * 26) On the way of joy (1989)
 * 27) And about myself and others (1989)
 * 28) Ancient stories. Of gods and emperors, poets and hetaeras (1993)
 * 29) Short arabesques (1990)
 * 30) Antiques tourism. Novel from Ancient Egypt (1987)
 * 31) The swallows perched ... (1993)
 * 32) Shades of beauty (1991)
 * 33) From white cities under blue skies (1994)
 * 34) Herakles (1994)
 * 35) And about everything and everyone (1990)
 * 36) The unfortunate (1994)
 * 37) The comedians (1992)
 * 38) Legend, myth and fantazie (1994)
 * 39) The amorous donkey (1994)
 * 40) The period (1990)
 * 41) Xerxes, or Pride (1993)
 * 42) Iskander. The novel by Alexander the Great (1995)
 * 43) Louis Couperus in Africa (1995)
 * 44) The floating chessboard (1994)
 * 45) Eastward (1992)
 * 46) Prose. First volume (1995)
 * 47) The cord of mercy. Japanese legends (1995)
 * 48) Nippon (1992)
 * 49) Unbundled work (1996)
 * 50) Unpublished Work (1996)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The most important collection of letters published afterwards was that his publisher, LJ Veen, worried by the biographer Frédéric Bastet into two parts:
 * 1963 - Louis Couperus as letter writer

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This was supplemented after also letters of peat were discovered to Couperus:
 * 1977 - Letters of Louis Couperus to his publisher (Value Mr. Veen and Amice)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition another published:
 * 1987 - Louis Couperus and LJ Veen. Gleanings from their correspondence ISBN 90-204-2686-9

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Letters edition containing approximately 1,400 letters and most of the expenditure referred to above superfluous, published in 2013:
 * 1961 - Couperus and Antiquity [an essay of WEJ Cooper, and several letters of Couperus]
 * 1987 - 'Value Van Oss . An unknown letter by Louis Couperus ISBN 90-6481-993-9
 * 1996 - An excellence and a lady. Letters of Louis Couperus in the estate of Albert Bird
 * 2003 - Sempre il tuo. Letters of Louis Couperus to the family Van Glad Burgh - Böhtlingk
 * 2003 - Dear sir. Letters from the couple Couperus to Oscar Wilde ISBN 90-807314-2-0
 * 2006 - Thank you! Louis Couperus to dr. JR Forest
 * 2009 - Three memos of Louis Couperus 1892

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition, published dozens of letters as an independent expenditure, but in other publications (such as the biography of Henri van Booven or the study of Charles Reijnders ) or in magazines like Arabesques orPearl Diver. ===Adaptations <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Known plays and television series based on Couperus's work are:
 * 2013 - Correspondence. 2 parts

===Manuscripts <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Most manuscripts (letters are not included here) are located in the Royal Library or the Dutch Literary Museum in The Hague. A very small number of manuscripts is still in private hands, how much is unclear. For example, in 2005 the manuscript The primitive man and the complication of things offered at the auction of the estate of Büch . More recently, in October 2010, was a manuscript from private property (ie from collector Pieter Berend Old Mans, from 1960 to 2005), Elyata, over to the public collection of municipal archives and Athenaeumbibliotheek Deventer. This library incorrectly suggested in the accompanying press release that it would constitute the final manuscript of Couperus privately owned. ===Louis Couperus in translation <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Work Couperus's early and widely translated. In particular, the bibliographer Ronald Breugelmans has much research on translations of Couperus' work. This resulted in 1989 in his publication Louis Couperus in foreign parts of which appeared a comprehensive and revised edition in 2008, including those containing the letters of Couperus the translator Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (1865-1921). In Breugelmans 'publications are all known translations of Couperus' work included:
 * Eline Vere, a play in 1918 based on the book
 * Small Souls, based on the books of little souls
 * Of old people, the things that pass, a TV series based on the book
 * The Silent Force, a TV series based on the book

==Louis Couperus <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Biographies  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Couperus appeared on a number of biographies which Frédéric Bastet are the most important.
 * 1989 - Louis Couperus in foreign parts . A list of separately published translations ISBN 90-6908-002-8
 * 2008² - Louis Couperus in foreign

===<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Studies  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition, numerous studies have been published on the life and / or work Couperus. A selection:
 * Frédéric Bastet, Louis Couperus. A biography, 1987
 * Frédéric Bastet, The World of Louis Couperus, 1991 ISBN 90-214-5144-1
 * Henri van Booven, Life and works of Louis Couperus, 1933 (2nd edition 1981)
 * HW Tricht , Louis Couperus. A reconnaissance, 1960
 * Albert Vogel, The man with the orchid. The life story of Louis Couperus, cop. 1973 (2nd revised edition under the title: Louis Couperus, 1980)

===Miscellaneous <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A reference book with facts about the works and life of Couperus is:
 * Frédéric Bastet, All those lost paradises ... From and Louis Couperus, 2001 ISBN 90-214-5264-2 (Published on the occasion of the author's seventy-fifth birthday. Bundle previously published drafting, revising and provided notes)
 * Wouter Blok, Story and reader. A study of some structural aspects of "Old People and the things that go beyond" by Louis Couperus, 1960 ( Thesis )
 * Theo Bogaerts, The Ancient World by Louis Couperus, 1969
 * José Buschman, a dandy in the Orient. Louis Couperus in Africa, 2009 ISBN 978-90-5937-140-8
 * Luc Dirikx, Louis Couperus and decadence. A thematic confrontation, 1993 ISBN 90-72474-12-0 (Thesis)
 * Marc Galle , dreamed of love until our foolish existence. Fate in the work of Louis Couperus, cop. 1973
 * Martin Klein , Louis Couperus & Pier Pander . Texts for and about the sculptor Pier Pander, 1985
 * Martin Klein, Doom and return. The meaning of philosophy in the work of Louis Couperus, cop. 2000 ISBN 90-423-0109-0
 * Jeannette Ernestine Koch, The King novels by Louis Couperus. Backgrounds, 1989 (Thesis)
 * WJ Lukkenaer, "The comedians' Couperus, 1995 ISBN 90-802290-1-6
 * Wilhelmus Johannes Lukkenaer, The entwined staff. Couperus 'antique work, Part 1: From' Dionysus 't / m Herakles', cop. 1989 (Thesis)
 * KJ Popma , Reflections on the work of Louis Couperus (1863-1923), 1968
 * Charles Reijnders, Couperus Van Deyssel. Chronic confrontation in discussions, letters and notes, 1968 (Thesis) ISBN 90-253-5504-8
 * Paul Snijders , Jhr. JH Ram . Indirect light on Louis Couperus, 1983
 * Marijke Stapert-Eggen, Directory Louis Couperus, 1992 (3 parts: bibliography of the primary work of Louis Couperus)
 * Elizabeth Fisher , Couperus, Greeks and barbarians, 1969
 * HTM van Vliet, unity in diversity. On the method of Louis Couperus, 1996 ISBN 90-254-0827-3
 * HTM van Vliet, with Louis Couperus on tour. Nominations from their own work in 1915-1923 reviews, letters and other documents, 1998 ISBN 90-73978-94-7

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Louis Couperus Society contributes to the study of the writer by publishing:
 * Time Ladder Louis Couperus. A chronological overview of his life and work, 2003 (published on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Louis Couperus Society, also on the website of the Louis Couperus Society)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Louis Couperus Museum contributes to the study of Couperus by organizing two exhibitions a year which is always accompanied by a corresponding publication.
 * Arabesques . Magazine Louis Couperus Society (2000-). (This is the journal of the Society that two times a year and a continuation of: News Bulletin Louis Couperus Society (1993-1999).)
 * Couperus Cahiers (These are more extensive publications appear irregularly, so far, between 1995 and 2013, appeared 13 of these notebooks.)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2006 a survey of the bibliophile editions and Louis Couperus:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The main collection and Louis Couperus, which was purchased by the government in 2006, was compiled by Jan Eekhof .
 * Arnold Pippel & Menno Voskuil, The Book of nobility. Bibliophile editions and Louis Couperus: 1919-2006, 2006