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Dec 23, 2011
Arjen
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I started reading this book since Du Perron and Ter Braak are the heroes of Voskuil and Vogels. It follows more or less in the tradition of Stendhal incorporating autobiographical elements in literature
Wonderful autobiographical story of Du Perron's alter ego Arthur Ducroo. The story from his youth and teen years on early 19th century, colonial Java, is intertwined with journal like chapters from his later years in Paris and Brussels.
I especially liked his accounts of his More...
Wonderful autobiographical story of Du Perron's alter ego Arthur Ducroo. The story from his youth and teen years on early 19th century, colonial Java, is intertwined with journal like chapters from his later years in Paris and Brussels.
I especially liked his accounts of his More...
Dec 27, 2007
nanto
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As a book writen by dutch man who inheritage french bloodline, and since it was written during the dutch colonial era in Indonesia, many of us will categorize it as dutch indies literature.
after i read the book, the book tell me much about personal identity of the guy in story. how he define himself after long passage of life since his ancestor to him. how he define himself as a white man in a colonial country. Conflict of personal identity that could be happen to every body in every age a More...
after i read the book, the book tell me much about personal identity of the guy in story. how he define himself after long passage of life since his ancestor to him. how he define himself as a white man in a colonial country. Conflict of personal identity that could be happen to every body in every age a More...
Feb 21, 2010
Haast niet te lezen, maar als je doorzet wacht je een beloning. Een moeizaam topstuk uit de Nederlandse literatuur.
Jun 13, 2011
Mikael
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never actually finished it cover to cover the "memorialist" bits about the indies were typically heartbreaking but the chapters on paris were tiring.
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