Max Havelaar
Multatuli • 1860
Devastation Rating
injustice political historical literary fiction
Our Take
A Dutch colonial official watches the system he serves destroy the Javanese people and cannot make it stop. Multatuli wrote this as accusation dressed as novel, and the formal instability — the narrators arguing with each other — is the formal equivalent of a man who cannot contain his rage in a single voice.
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