![]() ![]() It's subtitle " Or the Coffee Auctions of a Dutch Trading Company," does not really say a lot more about the book than just the plain title because it is a lot more about the life in Indonesia both for the local people as well as the colonialists back then than about the trading itself. In any case, I think it still has a message for us today, it is as important now as it was then. The book is translated (not just) into English but I read it in the original Dutch. There are other lists around in the meantime where it is still number three, following " The Discovery of Heaven" by Harry Mulisch and " The House of the Mosque" by Kader Abdolah, two very influential and important works I highly recommend. " Max Havelaar" is also called " the book that killed colonialism" and was chosen as the most important book in Dutch literature in 2002. His book seemed to have opened the eyes of many Dutch people at the time as to what colonialism really meant. At least, he's from the same era and is just as popular in the Netherlands as Dickens is in the United Kingdom. ![]() ![]() Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker) "Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company" ( Dutch: Max Havelaar of de koffiveilingen der Nederlandsche Handelmaatschappy) - 1859Įduard Douwes Dekker aka Multatuli should probably be called the Dutch Charles Dickens. ![]()
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