
The Inevitable
' The Inevitable' Summary
It chronicles the story of a 23-year-old Dutch divorcee, Cornélie de Retz van Loo, from an upper-class The Hague background who seeks to start a new emancipated and culturally fulfilling life in Italy.
In Britain the novel's erotic explicitness and the social issues it deals with provoked significant criticism upon its publication.
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DutchPublished In
1900Authors

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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