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The Hidden Force

Louis Couperus

出版	Steerforth Press, 2012-09-25
主題	Fiction / ClassicsFiction / LiteraryFiction / Political
ISBN	19089682229781908968227
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Ut_3AwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Set in Java at the height of Dutch colonial rule in the East Indies, Couperus’s evocative and sensual narrative depicts the clash between Western rationalism, represented by the district commissioner Otto van Oudijck, and ancient indigenous mystical traditions upheld by the local native prince, Sunario. The behaviour of Van Oudijck’s promiscuous wife Léonie proves to be his Achilles heel, and his seemingly impregnable authority disintegrates.