Inevitable
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Cornélie de Retz Van Loo, a 23-year-old recently divorced socialite, tries to begin a new life in Italy, with mixed feelings. After spending time in Rome, however, she discovers that Italy itself can never bring her the consolation she seeks, and writes a pamphlet on 'The Social Position of the Divorced Woman'. Flouting convention, she moves in with the Dutch painter Duco van der Staal, with only two acquaintances - an amorous Italian prince and the American heiress whom he has married for her money - for company. In desperate financial straits, Cornélie is forced to take a position as companion to an elderly American lady in Nice, where she unexpectedly runs into her ex-husband. Will she be able to resist his continuing power over her?
Louis Couperus
Louis Marie Anne Couperus (geboren am 10. Juni 1863 in Den Haag; gestorben am 16. Juli 1923 in De Steeg) war ein niederländischer Autor. Er war das jüngste von elf Kindern von Jonkvrouwe Catharina Geertruida Reynst und Dr. John Ricus Couperus, pensionierter Gerichtsrat an den beiden Hohen Gerichtshöfen im damaligen Niederländisch-Indien (Indonesien). Louis Couperus verbrachte den Großteil seines Lebens im Ausland, als Schulkind in Batavia, als Erwachsener auf seinen ausgedehnten Reisen in Skandinavien, England, Deutschland, Frankreich, Spanien, Niederländisch-Indien, Japan und vor allem in dem von ihm so geliebten Italien, das ihn überaus faszinierte. Am 9. September 1891 heiratete er Elisabeth Wilhelmina Johanna Baud. Den Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges feierte er als Erlösung aus Erstarrtheit. Infolge des Krieges kehrte er 1915 nach Den Haag zurück, wo ihm von seinen Freunden ein Haus in De Steeg angeboten wurde, das er jedoch nur für kurze Zeit bewohnte. Er starb dort am 16. Juli 1923, wenige Wochen nach seinem 60. Geburtstag, vermutlich an einer Lungenfellentzündung und einer Blutvergiftung. Die stattliche Reihe der historischen und psychologischen Romane, Erzählungen, Reiseberichte, Essays, Feuilletons und Gedichte, die Couperus hinterließ, zeugen von einer erstaunlichen Vielfalt und nicht zuletzt von einem außergewöhnlich arbeitsamen Schriftsteller. Für sein literarisches Werk erhielt er 1897 den Offiziersorden von Oranien-Nassau und 1923, an seinem 60. Geburtstag, den Orden des Niederländischen Löwen. Ein großer Teil seiner Romane und Novellen spielt in den Kreisen des Haager Großbürgertum, dem Umfeld also, in dem Couperus aufwuchs. Andere Werke beschäftigen sich mit dem Orient, insbesondere (aber nicht ausschließlich) mit Niederländisch-Indien. Sein Werk wird oft der Stilgattung des Impressionismus zugerechnet.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Inevitable The Marchesa Belloni’s boarding-house was situated in one of the healthiest, if not one of the most romantic quarters of Rome. One half of the house had formed part of a villino of the old Ludovisi Gardens, those beautiful old gardens regretted by everybody who knew them before the new barrack-quarters were built on the site of the old Roman park, with its border of villas. The entrance to the pension was in the Via Lombardia. The older or villino portion of the house retained a certain antique charm for the marchesa’s boarders, while the new premises built on to it offered the advantages of spacious rooms, modern sanitation and electric light. The pension boasted a certain reputation for comfort, cheapness and a pleasant situation: it stood at a few minutes’ walk from the Pincio, on high ground, and there was no need to fear malaria; and the price charged for a long stay, amounting to hardly more than eight lire, was exceptionally low for Rome, which was known to be more expensive than any other town in Italy. The boarding-house therefore was generally full. The visitors began to arrive as soon as October: those who came earliest in the season paid least; and, with the exception of a few hurrying tourists, they nearly all remained until Easter, going southward to Naples after the great church festivals.Some English travelling-acquaintances had strongly recommended the pension to Cornélie de Retz van [2]Loo, who was travelling in Italy by herself; and she had written to the Marchesa Belloni from Florence. It was her first visit to Italy; it was the first time that she had alighted at the great cavernous station near the Baths of Diocletian; and, standing in the square, in the golden Roman sunlight, while the great fountain of the Acqua Marcia gushed and rippled and the cab-drivers clicked with their whips and their tongues to attract her attention, she was conscious of her “nice Italian sensation,” as she called it, and felt glad to be in Rome.