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Title	:	De stille kracht
Author	:	Louis Couperus
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Volledige werken Louis Couperus 17
Pages	:	Pages: 270 pages
Published	:	1989 by Veen (first published 1900)
Categories	:	European Literature. Dutch Literature. Literature. Fiction. Classics

De stille kracht

Louis Couperus

Hardcover | Pages: 270 pages

Rating: 3.56 | 2036 Users | 98 Reviews

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Op het eiland Java vindt een aantal onverklaarbare gebeurtenissen plaats. De inwoners wijzen die toe aan 'de stille kracht', een Indisch mysterie dat de mensen in zijn greep houdt. Resident Otto van Oudijck vindt het maar onzin. Maar als hij een regent ontslaat omdat die zich op een feest onbeschoft gedragen heeft, gebeuren er plotseling vreemde dingen in zijn huis. Als hij zich zwakker gaat voelen en ziek wordt, gaat hij steeds meer in de stille kracht geloven.

Het oude koloniale Indië is tastbaar aanwezig in dit hoogtepunt uit het oeuvre van Louis Couperus. Nederlandse nuchterheid tegenover Javaanse mystiek, angst voor seksuele taboes tegenover natuurlijke eenvoud en uitbundigheid: de hoofdpersonen in De stille kracht worden verscheurd door tegenstellingen die zij zelf niet begrijpen.

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Original Title:	De stille kracht
ISBN:	9020426036 (ISBN13: 9789020426038)
Edition Language:	Dutch

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Fascinating look into the history of the Dutch East Indies!

I just could not appreciate this book and I really wanted to. The writing was so repetitive...every characteristic of each character was drummed into your head a thousand times...extremely claustrophobic. I was (hair pulling)frustrated, because Couperus is perceptive and objective. I just don't think he found the pulse he was looking for with this book. The insipid, racist, husks that colonialism made of these characters!Couperus does an excellent job of describing sexual repression and the lack

This is a story of a tragic life led by a Dutch colonial resident in Java (Indonesia), when the Western rationality and the hidden, mysterious Javanese mysticism collide. Being a non-Javanese Indonesian myself, I found this book as a very refreshing account of the culture which has been the context of my life since I was born. It also shed light about our colonial history, more on the personal side than the "official" one I learned from school. In the spirit of learning more about my country's

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I dont read Dutch, but I found a good English translation at Project Gutenberg. Its a good story and it paints a compelling picture of dangers and isolation in colonial Java. The men, the administrators, work long hours and and are generally satisfied. The women for the most part are pampered, bored, and unhappy, and often up to mischief. Underneath the veneer of European civilization toil masses of natives with their magical beliefs and their rage against their colonizers. These are the hidden

From a historical point of view, well known to be one of the most impactful colonial literature books. An interesting read that is also informative into the ways of that time. Probably one of the first books written by a Dutch to even cast a light of doubt upon Dutch rule in Indonesia, but it does so from still an extremely eurocentric POV. For the most part, still cast the indigenous population in a "backward" light, still the same "white man's burden" narrative, even directly refer to "big

This is a story of a tragic life led by a Dutch colonial resident in Java (Indonesia), when the Western rationality and the hidden, mysterious Javanese mysticism collide. Being a non-Javanese Indonesian myself, I found this book as a very refreshing account of the culture which has been the context of my life since I was born. It also shed light about our colonial history, more on the personal side than the "official" one I learned from school. In the spirit of learning more about my country's