Define Of Books De avonden
| Title | : | De avonden |
| Author | : | Gerard Reve |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 191 pages |
| Published | : | 1997 by De Bezige Bij (first published 1947) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. European Literature. Dutch Literature. Classics. Literature |
Gerard Reve
Paperback | Pages: 191 pages Rating: 3.51 | 7145 Users | 422 Reviews
Narration To Books De avonden
De Avonden vertelt het verhaal van Frits van Egters, die in de donkere decemberdagen van vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog zich een houding probeert te geven tegenover zijn ouders en vrienden. Over alles ligt een grijze waas van melancholie, en met zijn eigenzinnige gevoel voor humor probeert hij door het pantser van de verveling te breken. In het ontroerende slothoofdstuk komt hij tot het louterende inzicht dat hij door te kijken en te observeren de zinloosheid heeft bezworen: 'Het is gezien, het is niet onopgemerkt gebleven.'
Describe Books Conducive To De avonden
| Original Title: | De avonden: een winterverhaal |
| ISBN: | 902342493X (ISBN13: 9789023424932) |
| Edition Language: | Dutch |
| Characters: | Frits van Egters |
| Setting: | Netherlands Amsterdam,1946(Netherlands) |
| Literary Awards: | Reina Prinsen Geerligsprijs (1947) |
Rating Of Books De avonden
Ratings: 3.51 From 7145 Users | 422 ReviewsAssessment Of Books De avonden
The potatoes are very good, her mother said making prolonged eye contact with me. I looked down at my plate. The potatoes were fine, but very good seemed like an exaggeration. This thought lay wriggling on my tongue, but I managed to swallow it and instead make an unconvincing noise of agreement. Its warm in here, isnt it? her father said to no one in particular. It is, I felt compelled to reply, and immediately regretted it. Her mother pursed her lips. Should I have said that the temperatureTwenty-three-year-old school dropout Frits van Egters works in an office and lives with his parents in the close confines of a small apartment. The narrative takes place in Amsterdam over the last ten days of 1946. Frits frets over how to spend the evenings, for it is crucial that for their duration he escapes the presence of his parents, whose irritating personal habits he minutely categorizes to himself in an obsessive manner. Reve employs a limited third-person point-of-view in the novel,
The potatoes are very good, her mother said making prolonged eye contact with me. I looked down at my plate. The potatoes were fine, but very good seemed like an exaggeration. This thought lay wriggling on my tongue, but I managed to swallow it and instead make an unconvincing noise of agreement. Its warm in here, isnt it? her father said to no one in particular. It is, I felt compelled to reply, and immediately regretted it. Her mother pursed her lips. Should I have said that the temperature
Definitely one of the strangest and funniest novels I have ever come across. A masterpiece.
Got to page 65 and along with a massive sigh, dropped it. Nothing in the protagonists, intrigue or description of events is done enough here to keep me interested in this book. The first 20 pages were sort of promising as we could see an existentialist vein in the writing but the author doesn't exploit it.
Brilliant evocation of a grim just-after-the-war Amsterdam, where the bored 24 year old protagonist Frits - a filing clerk - hears his parents slurp soup whilst listening to the radio and understandably goes out a lot to visit friends or the movie house or dances. However there is not much excitement here either. Instead there's deep sarcasm and cynicism and sadistic humour and avoidance of anything that might hold meaning. Frits, for instance, obsesses about baldness, its causes, its cures.
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