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A modern masterpiece of one of the most important Dutch authors of all time, voted the best Dutch novel of the twentieth century

Eleven-year-old Elmer inhabits a childhood of superstition, private lore and secret societies that only certain friends can join (and of which he is always president). When a new boy, pale, spindly Werther, arrives in the neighbourhood, a subtle game of fascination and persecution begins.In wartime Amsterdam, a young boy watches as Germans occupy the city. At first his parents' friends, the Boslowits family, think they have little to fear. The...

È il 1947 quando il ventitreenne Gerard Reve pubblica il romanzo che sconcerta, cattura e divide l'Olanda postbellica, annoverato oggi tra i grandi classici di questo paese e tra i capolavori della letteratura europea. Per gli ultimi dieci giorni del dicembre 1946 seguiamo la vita di Frits van Egters, un giovane che ha lasciato gli studi per un monotono lavoro impiegatizio e che trascorre il tempo libero peregrinando per le strade di Amsterdam...

Two novellas considered among "The Evenings" author Reve's best work. "Werther Nieland" takes on the oppression and enchantment of childhood. "The Fall Of The Boslowitz Family" presents a family's downfall through the eyes of a friend of one of the children.

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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 ...

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 D...

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Nader Tot U noemde Reve de voortzetting en voltooiing van Op Weg Naar Het Einde. Reves denkbeelden over religie en seksualiteit worden in dit boek uitgewerkt tot de inmiddels beroemde persoonlijke mythe. Tegenover de futiliteit van het bestaan staat God. Hij is de enige werkelijkheid: 'En indien het waar was, dat God liefde was, dan moest dit betekenen dat wij slechts werkelijk bestonden, in zoverre we lief hadden.' Naar aanleiding van het boe...