Gerard Kornelis van het Reve:
(Amsterdam, 14 December 1923 – Zulte, East Flanders, 8 April 2006).
Gerard Kornelis van het Reve, was a Dutch writer and poet. His best-known works are De avonden (novel, 1947), Werther Nieland (novella, 1949), Op weg naar het einde (epistolary prose, 1963) and Nader tot U (prose, 1966). Together with Harry Mulisch and Willem Frederik Hermans, he is counted among The Big Three of postwar Dutch writers.
The main thing is that we be pure in our own body and mind, show reverence to Nature, and be kind to animals and birds, caged or at liberty, who, like us, await deliverance in anxious travail.
