Max Havelaar

by Multatuli

Overview

Max Havelaar is een van de beroemdste boeken uit de Nederlandse literatuurgeschiedenis, en het bekendste werk en debuut van Multatuli, die een comfortabel baantje als ambtenaar in Nederlands-Indië opgaf om in deze roman het wanbeleid van de Nederlanders aan de kaak te stellen. Ook de structuur van de roman is revolutionair. Het boek bevat meerdere raamvertellingen, verhalen in verhalen, en verspringt tussen drie verschillende vertellers. Max Havelaar werd in meer dan veertig talen vertaald, en in 1976 verscheen de gelijknamige film, met rollen voor onder andere Peter Faber en Rutger Hauer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788726112436
Publisher:	Saga Egmont International
Publication date:	12/17/2018
Sold by:	De Marque
Format:	eBook
Pages:	350
File size:	651 KB
Language:	Dutch

About the Author

Multatuli (1820-1887), born Eduard Douwes Dekker in Amsterdam, was one of the Netherlands' greatest writers. He traveled to the Dutch East Indies in 1838, and had a number of government jobs until resigning from his position as assistant commissioner of Lebak, Java, in 1856, when his efforts to protect the Javanese people from their own chiefs were not supported by the colonial government. Upon returning to Europe, he became renowned for his novel Max Havelaar, first published in 1860, which was based on his time in the Dutch East Indies.

Ina Rilke is a translator of Dutch and French and has received the Vondel Prize, the Scott Moncrieff Prize, and the Flemish Culture Prize for her translations. She lives in Amsterdam and Paris.

David McKay is a translator of Dutch literature and was longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for his translation of Stefan Hertman's War and Turpentine.