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Original Title:	Камера обскура
ISBN:	0811216748 (ISBN13: 9780811216746)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Albert Albinus, Margot Peters, Axel Rex, Elisabeth Albinus
Setting:	Berlin(Germany)

Laughter in the Dark

Vladimir Nabokov

Paperback | Pages: 292 pages

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Title	:	Laughter in the Dark
Author	:	Vladimir Nabokov
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 292 pages
Published	:	September 17th 2006 by New Directions (first published 1932)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Cultural. Russia. Literature. Russian Literature. Novels

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"Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster." Thus begins Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark; this, the author tells us, is the whole story except that he starts from here, with his characteristic dazzling skill and irony, and brilliantly turns a fable into a chilling, original novel of folly and destruction. Amidst a Weimar-era milieu of silent film stars, artists, and aspirants, Nabokov creates a merciless masterwork as Albinus, an aging critic, falls prey to his own desires, to his teenage mistress, and to Axel Rex, the scheming rival for her affections who finds his greatest joy in the downfall of others. Published first in Russian as Kamera Obskura in 1932, this book appeared in Nabokov's own English translation six years later. This New Directions edition, based on the text as Nabokov revised it in 1960, features a new introduction by Booker Prize-winner John Banville.

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Probably Nabokov's most accessible novel and in some ways a precursor to the later Lolita. The opening paragraph gives us a precis of the entire story: "Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster."It was interesting to discover he was unhappy with the English translation and so, five years later in 1938, decided to

I periodically revisit a handful of authors (kundera, kafka, calvino, queneau, fleming etc.) - why? to reaffirm my faith in humanity, or in something you may call "human achievement?" "art??" (ugh). perhaps for the thrill of experiencing a unique pleasure in a certain kind of intellectual, or, better, cerebral stimulation that has no equal anywhere else in nature (or human construction!) what am I talking about?!?!? all of this is a way of saying that nabokov is one of that select few, perhaps

3.50 starsThis is the 5th novel by Vladimir Nabokov I read: the other three being 'Collected Stories,' 'King, Queen, Knave,' 'Lolita,' and 'Pnin'. My list is few due to a long interval of reluctance due to my limited familiarity with his style, texts and English. However, I have since gained more confidence from my first encounter with his "Collected Stories" (Penguin, 2010) in which I could enjoy reading most of them. Interestingly, this novel written in Russian has been translated into English

Why should you read this book?This book is called Laughter in the Dark but when I finished it, I just wanted to cry in the dark. I rarely feel this way about the books I read. I only feel like this when I loved them, when they mean the world to me. Nabokov has this transcendental and eternal effect on me. First, I close the book; then, I feel like I am going to scream because I am feeling too many things at the same time. Its a revolution inside me. And, after that, I feel sad. His writing moves

Nabokov famously disowned Laughter in the Dark and one can see some of the reasons why-it lacks the vivacity and verve, the poetic cadence of Nabokovs prose, however it contains most of the themes which dominate Nabokovs works; the vicissitudes of reality, of cruelty, the burgeoning sexuality of adolescence, solipsism and unreliable narrators. Some of the descriptions can be cloyingly clichéd and it lacks perhaps the complexity of his great novels, however traces of his genius and lyricism are

Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark is a savage tale of cuckoldry at its worst. Albert Albinus, a wealthy middle-aged man, is drawn to a young theater usher named Margot Peters. When his wife Elizabeth finds out (largely as a result of a note written by Margot), the marriage falls apart.Albinus and Margot meet up with the former's acquaintance, Axel Rex, and the result is a menage a trois about which Albinus is innocent. When he discovers the tricks being played upon him, he gets in an

And so, there I was, sitting in a cinema. The film I was about to see was called Obsession.As I sat in the dark, I laughed to myself because if theres one theme Ive come across a lot in literature, what with Proust and Goethe and Mann, its obsession.No surprise then that Albinus, the lead character in the movie, turns out to resemble Prousts obsessive hero Charles Swann so closely that its hard to tell the difference between them. Like Swann, Albinus is a man of private wealth and refined tastes