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Louis Couperus (1863-1923), one of the greatest writers of the Netherlands, is generally seen as the author who brought about the renewal in Dutch literature at the turn of the nineteenth century. In 1897, he wrote his novel Metamorfoze. Exactly one hundred years later the Dutch national preservation programme started. The name of the programme is taken from Couperus's novel.
Within the Metamorfoze programme the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century library materials will undergo a metamorphosis from book to microfilm and to digital object in order to preserve them for the future. The same can be said for Couperus's novel: the original manuscript was preserved in the Literary Collections project; the first edition of the book in the BNB project.
Louis Couperus
