 Front cover of Max Havelaar, 5th edition (1881) | |
| Author | Multatuli |
|---|---|
| Original title | Max Havelaar, of de koffi-veilingen der Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappy |
| Language | Dutch Indonesian (From 1972) |
| Genre | Political Novel |
| Publisher | J. de Ruyter K.H. Schadd |
Publication date | 1860 |
| Publication place | Netherlands |
Max Havelaar; or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (Dutch: Max Havelaar; of, De koffi-veilingen der Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappy) is an 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker), which played a key role in shaping and modifying Dutch colonial policy in the Dutch East Indies in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In the novel, the protagonist, Max Havelaar, tries to battle against a corrupt government system in Java, which was then a Dutch colony. The novel's opening line is famous: "Ik ben makelaar in koffie, en woon op de Lauriergracht, Nº 37." ("I am a coffee broker, and live on the Lauriergracht, Nº 37.").[1][2]
- ^ Multatuli 2020, p. 45.
- ^ Lauriergracht 2023.