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Saïdjah en Adinda

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Saidjah en Adinda is een beroemd liefdesverhaal. Het staat in het boek Max Havelaar van Multatuli.Het verhaal gaat over twee kinderen van arme Indische boeren. Ze wonen in Indie, een land dat nu Indonesie heet.Als ze later groot zijn, zullen de kinderen met elkaar trouwen. Dat hebben hun vaders met elkaar afgesproken. Saidjah en Adinda willen zich graag aan deze afspraak houden. Maar of dat ook lukt...?

76 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

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Multatuli

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Eduard Douwes Dekker, better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tuli, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar (1860) in which he denounced the abuses of colonialism in the colony of the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia). He is considered one of the Netherlands' greatest authors.

Determined to expose the scandals he had witnessed during his years in the Dutch East Indies, Douwes Dekker began to write newspaper articles and pamphlets. Little notice was taken of these early publications until, in 1860, he published his satirical anticolonialist novel Max Havelaar: The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company under the pseudonym Multatuli. Douwes Dekker's pen name is derived from the Latin phrase multa tuli, meaning "I have suffered much" (or more literally: "I have borne much"). It refers both to himself and to the victims of the injustices he saw.

Multatuli made several attempts to write for the stage. One of his plays, Vorstenschool (The School for Princes, published in 1872 in the fourth volume of Ideën), expresses his nonconformist views on politics, society, and religion. Out of fear of offending the Dutch king, it was three years before the play was first staged. The premiere and subsequent tour were a great success, forming one of the highlights of Multatuli's career as a writer.

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Profile Image for Matthieu Wegh.
890 reviews35 followers
March 8, 2025
? Was benieuwd naar het beroemdste verhaal van de Max Havelaar en het komt er meestal niet van om de hele Max Havelaar te lezen...
🤔 Ik herinnerde mij het verhaal niet meer uit mijn middelbare schooltijd, terwijl ik het toen wel gelezen had...Was iets mooier en dramatischer dan ik verwachtte...
Misschien ga ik nog eens de originele versie lezen want dit was een eenvoudig communiceren versie.
MW 6/3/23
Inmiddels heb ik een mooie editie gevonden bij een minibieb, dus Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company gaat er ooit van komen...
MW8/3/25
Profile Image for Suzanne Van Herk.
96 reviews
June 4, 2023
Makkelijk boek om te lezen met bijvoorbeeld een mavo klas. Kort en krachtig boek.
Profile Image for Maya.
4 reviews1 follower
October 26, 2024
Ik snap dat dit mama’s favoriete liefdesverhaal is.
Profile Image for Ayla.
110 reviews16 followers
April 15, 2017
3 stars
This was a compulsory read for my Dutch class. It's basically a sub-story to the book: ''Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company''.

Since this was such a short story, I don't feel like I can properly review this, so I'm just going to create a short description of my thoughts.

It is a very clearifying and an assumingly very realistic representation of the events that happened during this time. Life for the locals was a tough and a cruel one. The way Multatuli is able to mold this into a story with a moral is very interesting to me.
Other than that, the story is pretty simple and doesn't contain any 'deeper layers' other than showing the life of the locals. But, this was of course, during that time a revolutionary idea. He denounced the abuses of colonialism in the colony of the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia) in his book ''Max Havelaar''.

I find this a difficult one to rate, because it's intentions were (of course) entirely created to fit into that time period.
If I rate this based solely on how much I enjoyed it, I'd give this 2 stars.
The moral is 5 stars to me.
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78 reviews1 follower
March 29, 2020
Één van de onvolprezen uitgaven voor beginnende volwassenen lezers van uitgeverij Eenvoudig Communiceren
Profile Image for Yana.
72 reviews
November 5, 2021
Mooi, realistisch, maar ook een triest verhaal.
Profile Image for Ilona.
251 reviews6 followers
November 6, 2017
Ik heb dit verhaal niet gelezen maar geluisterd en het was op zo'n prettige manier ingesproken dat ik niet anders kan dan vijf sterren geven. Het verhaal zelf sprak me ook heel erg aan. Tijd voor mij dus om Max Havelaar helemaal te gaan lezen!
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March 8, 2020
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