De avonden is a 1947 novel by Gerard Reve

Gerard Reve

Gerard Kornelis van het Reve was a Dutch writer. He adopted a shortened version of his name, Gerard Reve in 1973, and that is how he is known today. Together with Willem Frederik Hermans and Harry Mulisch, he is considered one of the "Great Three" of Dutch post-war literature...

. Reve wrote the book under the pseudonym Simon van het Reve. It was released on 1 November 1947.

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).

In 1988 a film adaption

De Avonden (film)

De Avonden, international title Evenings, is a 1988 Dutch film directed by Rudolf van den Berg. It is based on the novel of the same title by Gerard Reve.Leading roles were played by Thom Hoffman, Rijk de Gooyer and Pierre Bokma....

 was made.

In 2007 De avonden was named as one of the Top 10 Dutch language novels of all time

NRC's Best Dutch novels

NRCs Best Dutch novels is a list of the most popular Dutch-language novels as of 2007.This list is based on an internet survey on books, carried out by the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad in the beginning of 2007. The Dutch public originally voted for their best-loved books from a "long-list". From...

 by readers of the newspaper NRC Handelsblad

NRC Handelsblad

NRC Handelsblad, often abbreviated to NRC, is a daily evening newspaper published in the Netherlands by NRC Media. The newspaper was created on October 1, 1970, from merger of the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant and Algemeen Handelsblad . In 2006 a morning newspaper, nrc•next, was launched...

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Literature

(1989): Gerard Reve, De avonden. In: Lexicon van literaire werken . (1976): Over De avonden van Gerard Kornelis van het Reve