| |
| | The Anarchist Encyclopedia: Multatuli Page; aka Eduard Douwes Dekker, Edward Dekker; Authors, Poets, Anarchists...: A ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Multatuli's ideas influenced the socialist & libertarian milieu of his time & practising his libertarian ideals scandalized his contemporaries, living as he did with two women & their children. |
 | | Despite its tragic themes, Max Havelaar is savagely funny, particularly the chapters narrated by Droogstoppel, a character unmatched for his veniality, narrow-mindedness, or singular lack of understanding or imagination. |
 | | Though Multatuli's masterpiece is nearly 150 years old, it wears its age well, & Roy Edwards's excellent translation offers English-speaking readers a wonderful opportunity to experience one of the Netherlands's great literary classics. |
| recollectionbooks.com /bleed/Encyclopedia/Multatuli.htm (479 words) |
|