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The Havelaar-story is interrupted by the narrator. Who is the narrator: Droogstoppel, Stern, Sjaalman, Max Havelaar and/ or Multatuli himself?
Explain.

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Read the chapter on Multatuli (“The Dialogic Truth from the Tropics”) in ##E. M Beekman’s Troubled Pleasures. Dutch Colonial Literature from the Dutch East Indies 1600-1950, 1996, p. 203-252. Focus on the pages 236-238, in which Beekman compares the structure of Max Havelaar with a ‘Chinese box’.

Question:

Compare the lay-out of Havelaar’s house with Beekman’s figure of the Chinese box.

Do you agree with the following suggestion: the description of Havelaar’s house is symbolic for the structure of Max Havelaar. Explain.


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