Summary of Darkness and Company
“Darkness and Company” follows Vincentas, a photographer in Lithuania during the early 1940s. To secure his safety and that of his Jewish lover Judita, he agrees to photograph the mass killings of Jews by the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators.
Reasons to read Darkness and Company
“Darkness and Company” is a harrowing account of the extermination of Jews in Lithuania during World War II, highlighting the active role – or passive complicity – of Lithuanians. The photographs taken by Vincentas serve as a metaphor for the Lithuanian people’s role: were they mere observers or complicit in the atrocities? Sigitas Parulskis, a celebrated contemporary Lithuanian writer, received the Baltic Assembly Prize for Literature in 2016.
Setting: Kaunas (Lithuania)
Original title: Tamsa ir partneriai
Year of publication: 2012
Nr of pages: 224
