The Evenings by Gerard Reve
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From Pushkin Press Classics:
darkly humorous, masterfully engaging account of alienation and spiritual exhaustion in post-war Amsterdam
“The funniest, most exhilarating novel about boredom ever written. . . Every bit as much a classic as On the Road and The Catcher in the Rye.” – Herman Koch, author of The Dinner
“The funniest, most exhilarating novel about boredom ever written. . . Every bit as much a classic as On the Road and The Catcher in the Rye.” – Herman Koch, author of The Dinner
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.
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.
23 year-old Frits van Egters – 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 10 evenings in Frits's life at the end of December, as he drinks, smokes, sees friends, aimlessly wanders the gloomy streets of Amsterdam and tries to make sense of the minutes, hours and days that stretch before him. It is considered Gerard Reve’s masterpiece and was once voted the greatest Dutch novel of all time by readers in the Netherlands.
Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: outstanding classic storytelling from around the world, in a stylishly original series design. From newly rediscovered gems to fresh translations of the world’s greatest authors, this series includes such authors as Stefan Zweig, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka and Gaito Gazdanov.
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.
23 year-old Frits van Egters – 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 10 evenings in Frits's life at the end of December, as he drinks, smokes, sees friends, aimlessly wanders the gloomy streets of Amsterdam and tries to make sense of the minutes, hours and days that stretch before him. It is considered Gerard Reve’s masterpiece and was once voted the greatest Dutch novel of all time by readers in the Netherlands.
Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: outstanding classic storytelling from around the world, in a stylishly original series design. From newly rediscovered gems to fresh translations of the world’s greatest authors, this series includes such authors as Stefan Zweig, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka and Gaito Gazdanov.