Rushdie on Norfolk and Multatuli

pynchonoid pynchonoid at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 17 10:57:18 CDT 2006


Can you recommend a good English translation?

--- Michel Ryckx <mryc2903 at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> I read in school, was 13, one of the many stories in
> it, 'Sajdjah and 
> Adinda', a sad love story.  Even that young, I loved
> it.  Later on - not 
> that much later on - came to love that classic. 
> Even now the 19th 
> century Dutch sounds rather fresh.
> 
> I read Max Havelaar again about a year ago -- it
> reminded me of Melville 
> -- more Confidence Man than Moby Dick. 
> Synchronicity again?
> 
> Michel
> 

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