Gerard Reve
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"Reve was prosecuted in 1966 for breaking a law against blasphemy. In Nader tot U he describes the narrator's love-making to God, a visitor to his house incarnated in a one-year-old mouse-grey donkey. In April 1968 he was acquitted by the Supreme Court. Although it would take decades for the Netherlands to decriminalize blasphemy, in 2013 the law was abolished, the outcome of this case — known as the “Donkey Trial” — rendered the existing law virtually obsolete."--Sholem Stein |
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Gerard van het Reve (1923 – 2006) was a Dutch writer.
Reve was one of the first homosexual authors to come out in the Netherlands.
Gerard Reve was born in Betondorp, Netherlands, and was the brother of the staunch anti-communist Karel van het Reve.
He is best-known for his novel The Evenings (1947).
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