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Max Havelaar; or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (Dutch: Max Havelaar; of, De koffi-veilingen der Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappy) is an 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker), which played a key role in shaping and modifying Dutch colonial policy in the Dutch East Indies in the nineteenth and early ...
Feb 25, 2023 · Max Havelaar bears evidence of having been written by a genius of that order which only appears at long intervals in the world’s history. His mind embraces in its intellectual compass all mankind, regardless of race or caste.
Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 1820 – 19 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tulī, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer best known for his satirical novel Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia ).
Dec 8, 2023 · A culturally and socially significant 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker) which was to play a key role in shaping and modifying Dutch colonial policy in the Dutch East Indies in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
His Max Havelaar became the most famous and most controversial Dutch prose work of all times, translated world-wide into thirty-four languages, amongst which are the Indonesian translation by H.B. Jassin in 1972 and most recently a Korean translation. Today, the novel is as much alive as when it first appeared in 1860.
Multatuli became internationally known with his most important work, the novel Max Havelaar (1860). Partly autobiographical, it concerns the vain efforts of an enlightened official in Indonesia to expose the Dutch exploitation of the natives.
In 1999, the famous Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer called Max Havelaar in the New York Times "The Book That Killed Colonialism." To this day, Max Havelaar is one of the most famous...
