the Author and Even He is like his colleague, Multatuli (1820-1887), as an outsider, by choice. He hopes that as the author of Max Havelaar), sometimes improperly, he said on Monday inTrouw.
“I think we’re both outsiders and members of the public would continue to” examine He, with the Eduard Douwes Dekker, born in Central. “He was not a timid writer, and his work is also in terms of its form, or rather the lack of form is inappropriate.”
“I would also like to own a manner unbecoming to be,” the 48-year-old, He continued. “One of the best writers to have been inappropriate. Often, they can do anything about it. The author thinks, now I’m going to look inappropriate and… no, no.”
He also sees the differences between himself and a Distinguished writer. “I have a lot of trust in a fictional form, then, are Distinguished. Really interested in it and trust that he is not in this form, which differs greatly from his contemporaries, like Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Balzac. He hammered it, also you need to make sure he’s not a writer. Without that, we have to believe in it.”
Nevertheless, his best-known work of Max Havelaar in 1859. The novel tells the story of a man who reacts against the corruption, the indirect system of governance of the time as the Dutch east Indies, known for standing by, and the Netherlands colonized Indonesia.