![]() ![]() The narrative not only sardonically punctured his country’s virtuous self-image and pretensions to global influence, but also got Hermans into the first of many scrapes with Dutch political and literary authorities. In 1952, the 30-year old Dutch prose fiction writer Willem Frederik Hermans (1921-1995) responded to those events with his second novel, Ik heb altijd gelijk (I Am Always Right). The Dutch colonial war in Indonesia came to an end in December, 1949 when the United States, which had funded the bloody Dutch campaign to retake its Indonesian colony from local partisans after World War II, now pressured the Netherlands government to accept Indonesia’s independence and Sukarno’s supposedly anti-communist “guided democracy.” ![]()
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