The evenings, a winter's tale, Gerard Reve ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett
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The evenings, a winter's tale, Gerard Reve ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett
Language
eng
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Literary Form
novels
Main title
The evenings
Oclc number
962008208
Responsibility statement
Gerard Reve ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett
Sub title
a winter's tale
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