De donkere kamer van Damokles

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The Darkroom of Damocles (Dutch: De donkere kamer van Damokles) is a war novel by the Dutch writer Willem Frederik Hermans, published in 1958. An immediate success since it was first published, the novel has been printed in numerous editions and is considered one of the greatest World War II novels. The book has been translated into English twice, in 1962 by Roy Edwards, and again in 2007 by Ina Rilke. It was adapted into the 1963 film Like Two Drops of Water, directed by Fons Rademakers. Le Carré's spy novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was in part inspired by The Darkroom of Damocles by Hermans, who suspected plagiarism. In the 1971 Dutch re-edition, Hermans added a quote from Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations § 462, viz. "I can look for him when he is not there, but not hang him when he is not there. One might want to say: 'But he must be somewhere there if I am looking for him.' - Then he must be somewhere there too if I don't find him and even if he doesn't exist at all."

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Detalles

Tipo

Libro

Estreno

1 de enero de 1958

Géneros

war novel

Creado por

Willem Frederik Hermans

Países

Netherlands