Laughter in the dark

Laughter in the dark

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, 1899-1977

Book - 2006

Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.

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Subjects
Adultery > Fiction.
Germany > Fiction.
Published
New York : New Directions 2006.
Language
English
Russian
Main Author
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, 1899-1977 (-)
Edition
Rev. ed
Item Description
Originally published: New York : New Directions, 1960. With new introd.
Physical Description
xi, 292 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN
9780811216746
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

Published in Russian in 1932, the novel was translated into English by Nabokov himself in 1938. This edition, however, is based on the author's revised 1960 text. Nabokov again offers one of his sad, silly sots in the character of Albinus, an aging critic who abandons his faithful wife for a teenage mistress also involved with a younger man who takes joy in Albinus's destruction. Cheerful it's not. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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