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| Title | : | De avonden |
| Author | : | Gerard Reve |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 191 pages |
| Published | : | 1997 by De Bezige Bij (first published 1947) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. European Literature. Dutch Literature. Classics. Literature |
Gerard Reve
Paperback | Pages: 191 pages Rating: 3.51 | 7145 Users | 422 Reviews
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De Avonden vertelt het verhaal van Frits van Egters, die in de donkere decemberdagen van vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog zich een houding probeert te geven tegenover zijn ouders en vrienden. Over alles ligt een grijze waas van melancholie, en met zijn eigenzinnige gevoel voor humor probeert hij door het pantser van de verveling te breken. In het ontroerende slothoofdstuk komt hij tot het louterende inzicht dat hij door te kijken en te observeren de zinloosheid heeft bezworen: 'Het is gezien, het is niet onopgemerkt gebleven.'Mention Books Toward De avonden
| Original Title: | De avonden: een winterverhaal |
| ISBN: | 902342493X (ISBN13: 9789023424932) |
| Edition Language: | Dutch |
| Characters: | Frits van Egters |
| Setting: | Netherlands Amsterdam,1946(Netherlands) |
| Literary Awards: | Reina Prinsen Geerligsprijs (1947) |
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Ratings: 3.51 From 7145 Users | 422 ReviewsWrite-Up Of Books De avonden
The potatoes are very good, her mother said making prolonged eye contact with me. I looked down at my plate. The potatoes were fine, but very good seemed like an exaggeration. This thought lay wriggling on my tongue, but I managed to swallow it and instead make an unconvincing noise of agreement. Its warm in here, isnt it? her father said to no one in particular. It is, I felt compelled to reply, and immediately regretted it. Her mother pursed her lips. Should I have said that the temperatureArguably the most pointless book I've ever read, and I absolutely loved it. Frits lives at home with his parents, who irritate him immeasurably, and obsseses about baldness, between fiddling with the radio, leafing idly through books and visiting his friends, which then causes him anxiety about maintaining conversations. Nothing of any note happens, but his life is laid so open, what's created is both hilarious and heroic. A genuine joy, and a searing look at the emptiness of life, as relevant
One million stars!!!!! Like Forest's review of cocaine on Review (we agree!) ...fucking funny, beautiful, nearly perfect, really; I loved it, reminded very much of Rhys, whom I love (of course Im not a complete idiot)...and esp. the aggressive passivity of her protagonists and narrators I was reminded of by Frits...just amazing, I can see The Catcher in the Rye comparisons but this is better (and I love Catcher in the Rye) and the Beckett comparisons but I find them lazy like when people say
The potatoes are very good, her mother said making prolonged eye contact with me. I looked down at my plate. The potatoes were fine, but very good seemed like an exaggeration. This thought lay wriggling on my tongue, but I managed to swallow it and instead make an unconvincing noise of agreement. Its warm in here, isnt it? her father said to no one in particular. It is, I felt compelled to reply, and immediately regretted it. Her mother pursed her lips. Should I have said that the temperature
Translated from Dutch this novel tells of ten days in the life of Frits van Egters. He is an oddity, Living with his parents he lies in bed each morning, he unsocialbly eats green pickled herrings and brown onions, turns the radio on when its not welcome and off when it is. He squeezes his spots publicly, tells bad jokes, takes cod-liver oil, obsesses about going bald and makes fun of his friends who are. He has strange dreams that verge on nightmares then wakes the next morning and starts
Review copy courtesy of Pushkin Press and NetGalley, many thanks.A surprising experience. At first I didn't think I was going to enjoy this book but it became oddly enjoyable. 1946 Amsterdam. Peace has broken out in Europe and when you'd expect a young man to feel elated, Frits is underwhelmed. We don't have any information about how he spent the war years but we do know that, instead of picking up his studies where he'd been forced to suspend them and looking for a new way of life, he is living
Frits looked at the clock. "All is lost," he thought, "everything is ruined. It's ten minutes past three. But the evening can still make up for a great deal.Gerard Reve's 1947 debut novel "De Avonden" is a classic of Dutch, indeed European, literature, for example ranked as the best Dutch novel since 1900 by the Society of Dutch literature.70 years later it has finally appeared in English, translated by Sam Garrett, also translator of the wonderful Tirza. See this LA Review of Books interview
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