Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Com... by Multatuli

Meijer discusses the author's tempestuous life and career, the controversy the novel aroused and its unusual narrative structure. Roy Edwards's vibrant translation conveys the satirical and innovative style of Multatuli's autobiographical polemic. 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. In Max Havelaar, Multatuli (the 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. 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. 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.

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Sending shockwaves through the Dutch nation when it was published in 1860, this damning expose of the terrible conditions in the colonies led to welfare reforms in Java and continues to inspire the fairtrade movement today.

The book had been written the previous year by Multatuli. 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. The book Max Havelaar (or The coffee auctions of the Dutch Trading Company) first appeared in 1860.

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Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Com... by Multatuli