Karel van het Reve | |
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 Karel van het Reve in 1985 | |
| Born | (1921-05-19)19 May 1921 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Died | 4 March 1999(1999-03-04) (aged 77) Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Occupation | Writer, translator, literary historian |
Karel van het Reve (19 May 1921 – 4 March 1999) was a Dutch writer, translator and literary historian, teaching and writing onRussian literature.[1]
He was born inAmsterdam and was raised as acommunist. He lost his 'faith' in his twenties and became an active critic and opponent of theSoviet 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 ofMarxism tonude beachetiquette. His works include a history ofRussian literature, 2novels and several collections ofessays. In 1978, Karel van het Reve delivered theHuizinga Lecture, under the title:Literatuurwetenschap: het raadsel der onleesbaarheid (Literary studies: the enigma of unreadability).
His brother,Gerard Reve, was a prominent prose writer.
Themain-belt asteroid12174 van het Reve, discovered by thePalomar–Leiden Survey in 1977, was named in his honor.[1]
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