- Karel van het Reve
Karel van het Reve (
May 19 ,1921 -March 4 ,1999 ) was a Dutch writer, translator and literary historian, teaching and writing on Russian literature.He was born in
Amsterdam and was raised as a communist. He lost his 'faith' in his twenties and became an active critic and opponent of the Soviet regime. With his help, work of dissidentAndrei Sakharov was smuggled to the west, and hisAlexander Herzen Foundation published dissident Soviet literature.He is considered to be one of the finest Dutch essayists, his interests ranging from the fallacies of
Marxism tonude beach etiquette . His works include a history ofRussian literature , 2novel s and several collections ofessay s.His brother,
Gerard Reve , was one of the great Dutch post-war prose writers.Persondata
NAME= Reve, Karel van het
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Dutch writer, translator, literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH=1921-05-19
PLACE OF BIRTH=Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH=1999-03-04
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