De Boeken Der Kleine Zielen by Louis Couperus
A sweeping psychological and social novel that follows the intertwined lives of provincial families, tracing how petty vanities, repressed passions and rigid social codes shape and often ruin intimate relationships across generations. With rich period detail and ironic sympathy, it dissects hypocrisy, marital boredom, betrayal and the search for meaning, showing how inwardly tormented “small souls” compromise, deceive or surrender to fate. The result is a melancholic, penetrating portrait of bourgeois life and the quiet tragedies born of constrained desire and moral fragility.
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- Published
- 1901
- Nationality
- Dutch
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- Dutch
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