The EveningsBy: Gerard Reve Series: Pushkin Press Classics THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF A POSTWAR MASTERPIECE '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.