Augusta de Wit Libri
Anna Augusta Henriette de Wit è stata una romanziera olandese. La sua opera più famosa è "Orpheus in de dessa". La sua scrittura si concentra su profondi ritratti psicologici ed esplora le complesse relazioni tra le persone. Il suo stile è lirico ed evocativo, permettendo ai lettori di immergersi nelle vite interiori dei suoi personaggi.
When Augusta de Wit toured Java in the 1910s she found not only "the airy fancies, the legends and the dreams" but also "a busy manufacturing country, prosperous and prosaic." In fact she arrived during a crucial phase of the island's development, when the colonial Dutch regime had just embarked on its "Ethical Policy" not only to repay its "debt of honour" to an impoverished peasantry but also to facilitate the interests of modern capitalism. An illuminating record of her observations of both the Javanese aristocracy and peasantry, Java, through numerous illustrations, presents an important social document and a fascinating narrative account of a society in transition.