Multatuli

Max Havelaar, Or, The Coffee Auctions of a Dutch Trading Company

— lae

second time reading this, and i enjoyed it even more than the first time.

a fictional book disguised as an autobiography written under a pseudonym to bring change in the government. very very interesting book and i enjoyed reading every part of it.

you can see this book as sort of a history book, since the author is basing this all on what he has experienced. the authors life story ties so much in how you perceive and read this book.

i understand why this is a dutch classic.

Multatuli (is Eduard Douwes Dekker.)

Marijke Stapert-Eggen

Een Nederlandse bestuursambtenaar in Indië komt in conflict met een inlandse vorst.

of, De koffieveilingen der Nederlandse Handelsmaatschappij

Max Havelaar

Naomi Meeuwenoord 

Joshua Line

Stan D

enya

Ellen

A fierce indictment of colonialism, Max Havelaar is a masterpiece of Dutch literature based on the author's own experience as an adminstrator in the Dutch East Indies in the 1850s. A brilliantly inventive fiction that is also a work of burning political outrage, Max Havelaar tells the story of a renegade Dutch colonial administrator’s ultimately unavailing struggle to end the exploitation of the Indonesian peasantry. Havelaar’s impassioned exposé is framed by the fatuous reflections of an Amsterdam coffee trader, Drystubble, into whose hands it has fallen. Thus a tale of the jungles and villages of Indonesia is interknit with one of the houses and warehouses of bourgeois Amsterdam where the tidy profits from faraway brutality not only accrue but are counted as a sign of God’s grace. Multatuli (meaning “I have suffered greatly”) was the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker, and his novel caused a political storm when it came out in Holland. Max Havelaar, however, is as notable for its art as it is for its politics. Layering not only different stories but different ways of writing—including plays, poems, lists, letters, and a wild accumulation of notes—to furious, hilarious, and disconcerting effect, this masterpiece of Dutch literature confronts the fixities of power with the protean and subversive energy of the imagination.

Or, the Coffee Auctions of The Dutch Trading Company

Lotte Dunnewold

MERLIJN HUNTJENS

Henri Crisafulli

Multatuli Multatuli

Je suis commissionnaire en cafés, et je demeure, Canal des Lauriers, n°. 37.Il n'est pas dans mes habitudes d'écrire des romans ou autres choses de la même farine. J'ai donc longuement réfléchi, avant de me résoudre à commander deux rames de papier de plus qu'à l'ordinaire, et à commencer l'ouvrage que vous avez en mains, cher lecteur.Cet ouvrage, il vous faudra le lire, que vous soyez commissionnaire en cafés, vous-même, ou n'importe quoi.

Max Havelaar, Or, The Coffee Auctions of a Dutch Trading Company

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