La Camera Oscura Di Damocle by Willem Frederik Hermans
A timid small‑shop owner becomes embroiled in the wartime underground when a charismatic, almost mirrorlike agent recruits him for covert missions that include sabotage and murder; after liberation the agent has vanished, there is no corroborating evidence for his story, and the protagonist is prosecuted and disbelieved, leaving his memories, motives and identity contested. The novel probes the slipperiness of truth, the moral ambiguity of resistance and collaboration, and how official records, perception and guilt can shape — or erase — a life.
- Published
- 1958
- Nationality
- Dutch
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- Medium
- Pages
- 200-300 pages
- Original Language
- Dutch
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- Alternate Titles
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- De donkere kamer van Damokles
- La camera oscura di Damocle
- The Darkroom of Damocles
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