The Darkroom of Damocles

ISBN: 9781590200810

页数: 391

定价: $ 15.95

内容简介

A modern day masterpiece and the most critically acclaimed Dutch novel of the 20th centuryafinally available in English and shortlisted by Three Percent as one of the best translated books of 2008 During the German occupation of Holland, tobacconist Henri Osewoudt is visited by a man named Dorbeck, who strangely proves to be Osewoudtas spitting image in reverse. Dorbeck assigns Osewoudt to commit a series of dangerous assignments, but things quickly go awry, with Osewouldt eventually killing his own wife. After the war, Osewoudt is taken for a traitor and captured. Osewoudt cannot prove that he received assignments from Dorbeckahe cannot even prove that his doppelganger ever existed. As it forces readers to confront questions of morality and power, right and wrong, "The Darkroom of Damocles" builds to a stunning conclusion.

作者简介

作者：(荷兰)威廉·弗雷德里克·赫尔曼斯 (Hermans.W.F.) 译者：宋德利

威廉·弗雷德里克·赫尔曼斯，(1921-1995)荷兰著名作家，与哈里·穆里施、杰拉德·里夫一起被誉为战后“荷兰文学三巨头”。1921年出生于阿姆斯特丹，在成为格罗宁根大学讲师之前长期研习自然地理，1973年移居巴黎。其作品以不事雕琢的冷峻风格而闻名，涵盖小说、戏剧、诗歌、散文及哲学和科学论著等多种类型。代表作有小说《达摩克利斯的暗室》、《难以入眠》等。

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