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Max Havelaar

- Or, the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
Af: David McKay, Multatuli, Ina Rilke Engelsk Paperback

Max Havelaar

- Or, the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
Af: David McKay, Multatuli, Ina Rilke Engelsk Paperback
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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.
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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.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 336
ISBN-13: 9781681372624
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1681372622
Udg. Dato: 5 mar 2019
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 203mm
Højde: 130mm
Forlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc
Oplagsdato: 5 mar 2019
Forfatter(e): David McKay, Multatuli, Ina Rilke
Forfatter(e) David McKay, Multatuli, Ina Rilke


Kategori Historisk spændingslitteratur


ISBN-13 9781681372624


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 336


Udgave


Længde 20mm


Bredde 203mm


Højde 130mm


Udg. Dato 5 mar 2019


Oplagsdato 5 mar 2019


Forlag The New York Review of Books, Inc

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