
- 289 pages
- English
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Darkness and Company
About this book
Part of the Peter Owen World Series: Baltics
Lithuania, 1941, Vincentas has made a Faustian pact with an SS officer: in exchange for his own safety and that of his Jewish lover, Judita, he will take photographs - 'make art' - of the mass killings of Jews in the villages and forests of his occupied homeland. Learning of the pact that has kept her safe for so long, a disgusted Judita returns to her husband, surrendering herself to the ghetto, leaving Vincentas alone and trapped in his horrifying work.
Through the metaphor of photography, Sigitas Parulskis lays bare the passivity and complicity of many of his countrymen during the Holocaust in which 94 per cent of Lithuania's Jewish population perished.
Translated from the Lithuanian by Karla Gruodis
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- About the Translator
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface: The Street with No Name
- Darkness and Company
- Pigs
- Three Kings
- Christening
- Pontius Pilate
- Night Watch
- The artist
- The Cross
- Judita and aleksandras
- The lost sheep
- Talitha Cumi
- The Father
- Childhood
- Test of Faith: Baltramiejus
- The Mother and the sister
- Coffin Making
- lessons in asceticism
- The Good samaritan
- News of aleksandras
- Totenkopf
- Jokubas the Elder speaks in Parables
- odysseus and Christ
- Morta and Marija
- salome
- The letter
- Christmas
- Escape
- Paintings
- The Empty Grave
- Afterword by Tomas Vaiseta
- Some Authors
- Contacts Page