Bøger af Gerard Reve

Den 1. november 1947 udkom første gang det, der blevet en af klassikerne indenfor hollandsk litteratur. Gerard Reves Aftenerne foregår i løbet af de sidste ti mørke dage af året 1946 og handler om Frits van Egters – en ung, 23-årig mand, der stadig bor hjemme hos sine forældre. Forældrene er ved at drive ham til vanvid med deres sære, små hverdagsvaner, og Frits prøver at undgå for meget tid sammen med dem ved at vandre rundt i byens aftenmørke gader, studere dens skæve eksistenser og besøge venner.Frits finder til tider sit eget liv både absurd og meningsløst – måske fordi han er en tænker og en dagdrømmer, der dissekerer og analyserer alting ned til mindste detalje og forgæves søger at finde mening i de dage, timer og minutter, der udgør hans liv.Fortællingen om Frits’ ti aftener viser på en både smuk og rørende måde, hvordan pessimisme blandes med kulsort humor, og tidsfordriv, kedsomhed og hverdagens ulidelige gentagelser bliver hele omdrejningspunktet for Frits’ trivielle liv.

A modern masterpiece, voted the best Dutch novel of all time'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 streets and tries to makes 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.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.

"Werther Nieland was first published as Werther Nieland, 1949. The fall of the Boslowits family was first published as De ondergang van de familie Boslowits, 1950"--Title page verso.