The Evenings
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| + | “Het graf gaapt, de tijd zoemt en nergens is redding.” ― ''[[De avonden]]'' (1947) by Gerard Reve. | ||
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| + | '''''De avonden'''''(1947, English: ''The evenings'') a novel by Dutch writer [[Gerard Reve]] which describes ten evenings out of the life of the 23 year old [[office clerk]] Frits van Egters. | ||
| - | “Het graf gaapt, de tijd zoemt en nergens is redding.” ― Gerard Reve. tags: de-avonden, | + | In 1988 a [[De Avonden (film)|film adaptation]] was made. |
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| - | '''De avonden''' (''The evenings'') is a 1947 novel by [[Gerard Reve]]. Reve wrote the book under the pseudonym ''Simon van het Reve''. It was released on 1 November 1947. | + | |
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| - | De avonden describes ten evenings out of the life of the 23 year old office clerk Frits van Egters. The book is partitioned in 10 chapters which each describe an evening (between 22 and 31 December 1946). | + | |
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| - | In 1988 a [[De Avonden (film)|film adaptation]] was made. In a 2002 poll, members of the [[Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde|Society for Dutch Literature]] ranked ''De Avonden'' first among works since 1900 in the Dutch canon. | + | |
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| - | In 2007 De avonden was named as one of the [[NRC's Best Dutch novels|Top 10 Dutch language novels of all time]] by readers of the newspaper [[NRC Handelsblad]]. | + | |
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De avonden(1947, English: The evenings) a novel by Dutch writer Gerard Reve which describes ten evenings out of the life of the 23 year old office clerk Frits van Egters.
In 1988 a film adaptation was made.
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