The evenings : a winter's tale / Gerard Reve ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Dutch Publication details: London : Pushkin Press, 2016.Description: 317 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1782271783
  • 9781782271789
Uniform titles:
  • Avonden. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 839.313/64 23
LOC classification:
  • PT5866.R56 A9513 2016
Summary: 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.
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Originally published in Dutch as De Avonden in 1947.

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.

In English; translated from the original Dutch.

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