The Evenings: A Winter's Tale
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Gerard Reve. (2017). The Evenings: A Winter's Tale. Steerforth Press.

Gerard Reve. 2017. The Evenings: A Winter's Tale. Steerforth Press.

Gerard Reve, The Evenings: A Winter's Tale. Steerforth Press, 2017.

Gerard Reve. The Evenings: A Winter's Tale. Steerforth Press, 2017.

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   • bioText: Gerard Reve (1923-2006) is considered one of the greatest post-war Dutch authors, and was also the first openly gay writer in the country's history. A complicated and controversial character, Reve is also hugely popular and critically acclaimed- his 1947 debut The Evenings was chosen as one of the nation's 10 favourite books by the readers of a leading Dutch newspaper while the Society of Dutch Literature ranked it as the Netherlands' best novel of all time.
     
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THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF A POSTWAR MASTERPIECE
'I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.'
Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes - finds life absurd and inexplicable. He lives with his parents, who drive him mad. He has terrible, disturbing dreams of death and destruction. Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit.
This is the story of ten evenings in Frits's life at the end of December, as he drinks, smokes, sees friends, aimlessly wanders the gloomy city street and tries to make sense of the minutes, hours and days that stretch before him.
Darkly funny and mesmerising, The Evenings takes the tiny, quotidian triumphs and heartbreaks of our everyday lives and turns them into a work of brilliant wit and profound beauty.
From the Hardcover edition.

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     January 23, 2017
     Frits van Egters, “the hero of this story,” spends the last 10 evenings of 1946 wandering the streets of Amsterdam, contemplating the more humorous and existential parts of his life, in the first English translation of a work by one of the most lauded post-war Dutch authors. Frits lives with his aging parents, whom he is growing to dislike more and more with each moment he spends listening to the radio with them, trying to engage them in conversation. He decides to take walks in order to sleep more soundly at night. On his strolls, he visits his friends and his older brother, and readers come to learn that Frits almost entirely lacks social skills—though in a somehow endearing manner. While visiting friends, he obsesses over the amount of time he spends with them in a meticulous manner, attempting to control even his littlest thoughts and actions. His inquisitive nature and his fantastic memory make Frits a lovable character. Reve, much like Robert Walser, is able to take the mundane parts of daily life and elevate them into something fascinating, hilarious, and page-turning. The publication of this novel marks the exciting introduction of a wonderful writer to an Anglophone audience.

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     December 15, 2016
     Published for the first time in English, this is the 1947 debut novel by controversial Dutch writer Reve (1923-2006), who went on to a rich career offending Dutch sensibilities. He's a mean man. He's a sick man. No, he's just a bored man, although he does spend time pondering what to do with the solid contents of his nose, deciding that the best place for them is the underside of a chair: "wherever you go, if you feel around under the chair the pieces of dried snot fall to the floor." It is Christmastime, a year and a half after the end of World War II, and Frits van Egters is thoroughly disaffected. The young man works in a meaningless office job, pushing paper from one stack to another. He's a Dostoyevski-an character in his malaise and spitefulness, but Frits is more or less than that; he still lives at home, tormenting his mother on the details of how to properly smoke a cigarette, giving his pimply brother a hard time; if the war were still going on, Frits might well be working for the bad guys, but now he'll spend the days between Christmas and the New Year wandering around Amsterdam loudly voicing his barely post-juvenile opinions about things to whomever will listen, including a stuffed rabbit when no human is available: "Rabbit, I am alive. I breathe, and I move, so I live. Is that clear? Whatever ordeals are yet to come, I am alive." Alive, yes, but an irredeemably unpleasant twerp all the same, given to killing insects and thinking about edema. Not much happens because not much is meant to happen, as if to say that apart from the occasional invasion by a malevolent neighbor life is pretty dull. If listless existentialism is your bag, then this is your book, which, though written well enough, hasn't aged particularly well. Unpretty but true to life--at least life of a sort, however uninteresting.

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'I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.'
Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes - finds life absurd and inexplicable. He lives with his parents, who drive him mad. He has terrible, disturbing dreams of death and destruction. Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit.
This is the story of ten evenings in Frits's life at the end of December, as he drinks, smokes, sees friends, aimlessly wanders the gloomy city street and tries to make sense of the minutes, hours and days that stretch before him.
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