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Title	:	De avonden
Author	:	Gerard Reve
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 191 pages
Published	:	1997 by De Bezige Bij (first published 1947)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Dutch Literature. Classics. Literature

De avonden Paperback | Pages: 191 pages

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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.'

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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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This book sparked a conversation, a dispute over whether it was important to know as much as possible about the author, or whether the story should be judged solely on what's on the page. I'm of the former belief - about 1/2 way through this book, I almost gave up on it, bogged down by the negativism of the central character, his unpleasant nature, obsession with looks (baldness in particular), rudeness to family and friends. Then I read more about Reve and this book in particular. Turns out

The Evenings is an easy novel in terms of language. In terms of its content, one might argue that its not so easy to plough through 300 or so pages about a young mans mundane procrastinations over the course of ten days in winter. Between turning the radio on and off again a million times, looking out the window, examining himself in the mirror, commenting and deliberating on peoples baldness and passive-aggressive confrontations with infuriating parents, Frits Van Egters leads a boring and

DNF.He rubbed his hands together and shuffled his feet."Still, I believe you're feeling a bit cold," the lady said. "Is it cold in here?" asked Joosje."No, I don't think so," he said, "it is only my feet. My shoes have rubber soles.""Are rubber soles that cold then?" the old woman asked."They are when you have sweaty feet," Frits said, "then you have to place your shoes behind the stove each night and hang your socks over the pipe. In fact, you need to wash your feet every night too, but that is

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

This book is supposed to be a classic, in the top ten favorites of Dutch literature. I have read other books by Dutch authors that are incredible, amazing, etc. This one was not one of themThe book info says: "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."All I can say about it

Twenty-three-year-old school dropout Frits van Egters works in an office and lives with his parents in the close confines of a small apartment. The narrative takes place in Amsterdam over the last ten days of 1946. Frits frets over how to spend the evenings, for it is crucial that for their duration he escapes the presence of his parents, whose irritating personal habits he minutely categorizes to himself in an obsessive manner. Reve employs a limited third-person point-of-view in the novel,