Babel

Babel

by Louis Couperus

Babel is a fantastical novel by Louis Couperus that explores themes of imagination, ambition, and the limits of human endeavor. The novel follows the story of an unnamed narrator who is drawn into a strange and wonderful world after climbing the Tower of Babel. There, he encounters a cast of eccentric characters, including a talking cat, a wise old man, and a beautiful woman who may or may not be the Virgin Mary. As the narrator explores this strange new world, he begins to question his own beliefs and the nature of reality itself.

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Louis Couperus

Netherlands

Louis Marie-Anne Couperus was a Dutch novelist and poet. His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological and historical novels, novellas, short stori...

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