Max Havelra or coffee auctions of the Dutch trading society. Multatuli E.

At the very beginning of the 21st century, the vote held by the Society of Dutch literature showed that the Dutch still considered the novel “Max Havelra, or Coffee auctions of the Netherlands Society”, who was ever created in 1860, the Dutch. Daues Dexker (1820–1887), who wrote under the pseudonym of the Multatuli.

The book of a retired colonial official about the exploitation of the population in the Netherlands East Indies (modern Indonesia), instead of going down in history with its era, withstood the testing of time and for many years has become a literary and humanistic guideline of the Dutch people. And outside the Netherlands, Max Havelra, translated into many languages, had a noticeable influence on the progressive public thought of the XIX - XX centuries.

In Russia, this novel has been published more than once in the period from 1916 to 1959, but always in an abbreviated form and transfers that do not meet modern requirements. In full volume and professional translation, the famous romance of the helmettali in Russian is published for the first time.