Synopsis
Footsteps of Fate (English Edition) by Louis Couperus is a haunting and intimate novel of love, pride, and the quiet tyranny of circumstance, where desire and duty move side by side toward an ending no one can quite avert.
In a world shaped by reputation and restraint, Couperus follows lives caught in the tension between what the heart demands and what society permits. Subtle gestures carry the weight of confession, chance encounters feel like irrevocable decisions, and each relationship becomes a fragile negotiation with fate itself.
With luminous psychological insight and an atmosphere of elegant unease, Footsteps of Fate unfolds as both a deeply human drama and a meditation on inevitability: how the past presses forward, how choices echo, and how even the strongest will can be guided by forces it cannot name.
Rich in emotional nuance and quietly devastating in its power, this English-language edition invites readers into a classic work of European literature—one that lingers long after the final page, like the soft, persistent sound of footsteps approaching.
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Biographie de l'auteur
Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (The Hague, 10 June 1863 – De Steeg, 16 July 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet. His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological and historical novels, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, feuilletons and sketches. Couperus is considered to be one of the foremost figures in Dutch literature.
Présentation de l'éditeur
"Footsteps of Fate" from Louis Couperus. Dutch novelist and poet (1863-1923).
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