Dutch to share their dark masterpiece, 70 years on.
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Carl-LaFong — 9 years ago(October 23, 2016 07:35 AM)
It is a novel lauded in the Netherlands as a modern classic, while its author is a literary titan. But British readers are unlikely to have heard of The Evenings or Gerard Reve.
Nearly 70 years after the novels publication and 10 years after Reves death, it has finally been translated into English. Set in Holland just after the second world war, it is a powerful story of an alienated young office worker who is cynical about his loving, middle-class parents and friends.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/22/gerard-reve-evenings-first-english-translation
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Jep_Gambardella — 9 years ago(October 24, 2016 01:02 PM)
Nearly 70 years after the novels publication and 10 years after Reves death
He must have written that novel when he was quite young then! Either that, or he lived to a very old age.
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Written at the age of 24. Interesting character, this author:
Reve himself was a controversial character. Born into a communist family in 1923, he rejected his parents ideology, becoming a devout, if unorthodox, Catholic openly homosexual, and combining eroticism and religion in his writings.
In 1966, he was prosecuted for blasphemy
, after he published writings
in which the narrator has sex with God, incarnated as a donkey.
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