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Across the Luminous Realms and Other Stories from Legends, Myths, & Fantasy
Across the Luminous Realms and Other Stories from Legends, Myths, & Fantasy is a masterful translation of the renowned Dutch author Louis Couperus' finest symbolist and fairy tales.
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About Across the Luminous Realms and Other Stories from Legends, Myths, & Fantasy
Across the Luminous Realms and Other Stories from Legends, Myths, & Fantasy is a masterful translation of the renowned Dutch author Louis Couperus' finest symbolist and fairy tales. The collection brings together twelve of his most celebrated works, where the boundaries of the real and the supernatural blur, drawing readers into a world where fate, spirituality, and the forces of destiny shape every character's journey. Across the Luminous Realms showcases the enchanting yet haunting beauty of Couperus’ symbolic world, where each story is a journey into the unknown, challenging the reader to reflect on the delicate interplay between fate, free will, and spiritual transcendence. Chaitali Sengupta’s translation is as rich and emotive as the original, offering an authentic introduction to the work of one of the greats in Dutch literature to an international audience. Robin Pascoe, Editor, Dutch News Sengupta has done Couperus’ text full justice, making a number of relatively unknown but culturally, historically very interesting stories accessible to a wide English-reading audience. Mary G. Kemperink, prof. (em.) Dutch Modern Literature (University of Groningen)
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