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Max Havelaar

Door Multatuli

Max Havelaar
CategorieEngels
Boeknummer#380303
TitelMax Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
AuteurMultatuli (= Eduard Douwes Dekker)
BoektypePaperback
UitgeverijLondon : Penguin Classics
Jaar van uitgave1995
ISBN100140445161
ISBN139780140445169
TaalEngels
BeschrijvingPaperback, 8vo.
SamenvattingOne of the most forceful indictments of colonialism ever written and a masterpiece of Dutch literature, in an esteemed translation by an award-winning translator Max Havelaar—a Dutch civil servant in Java—burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose vow to protect the Javanese from cruelty ends in his own downfall. In Max Havelaar, Multatuli (pseudonym for Eduard Douwes Dekker) vividly recreated his own experiences in Java and tellingly depicts the hypocrisy of those who gained from the corrupt coffee trade. Sending shockwaves through the Dutch nation when it was published in 1860, this damning exposé of the terrible conditions in the colonies led to welfare reforms in Java and continues to inspire the Fairtrade movement today. Roy Edwards’s vibrant translation conveys the satirical and innovative style of Multatuli’s autobiographical polemic. In his introduction, R. P. Meijer discusses the author’s tempestuous life and career, the controversy the novel aroused, and its unusual narrative structure.
Pagina's337
ConditieRedelijk — Rear cover stained, small crease in rear cover, several stains on cut, edges browned, front cover slightly damaged.
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