MAX HAVELAAR or the Coffee Auctions of a Dutch Trading Company
Häftad bok. Penguin . 1987.
Mycket gott skick.
*To me these pages are a chapter of my life... when I wrote my Havelaar in Brussels... I thought I should accomplish something
One of the most forceful indictments of colonialism ever written, Max Havelaar sent a shiver' through the Dutch nation when it was first published in 1860 and, even after 120 years, it is still capable of arousing strong emotions. It tells the story of a young civil servant in the colonial administration who, in 1856, clashed head-on with his government when he tried to force them to recognize the barbarity and corruption rife in the Dutch colony of Java.
Yet Max Havelaar is more than a polemical tract or autobiographical novel. Its innovative style, superb characterization and, above all, its vitality and pungent satire make it a powerful literary work in its own right. As
D. H. Lawrence wrote of it, The great dynamic force in Multatuli is as it was, really, in Jean Paul and in Swift and Gogol and in Mark Twain, hate, a passionate honourable hate…'
