Preview — Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov. Laughter in the Dark Quotes Showing of “A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.”.Cited by: Laughter in the Dark (Vintage International) - Kindle edition by Nabokov, Vladimir. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Laughter in the Dark (Vintage International)/5(). It was translated into English as Camera Obscura in and then released again with the name Laughter in the Dark in The novels history is complicated. It was first written in Russian by Nabokov and published in and It was later translated into English by Winifred Roy.
Buy Laughter in the Dark (Penguin Modern Classics) by Nabokov, Vladimir (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Laughter in the Dark (Original Russian title: Камера обскура, Camera obscura) is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov and serialised in Sovremennye Zapiski in The book deals with the affection of a middle-aged man for a very young woman, resulting in a mutually parasitic relationship. Laughter in the Dark. The way this tale of deception unfolds is totally diabolical, and Nabokov is a master of making you relate to characters whose behavior you would (hopefully) never replicate. I keep revisiting Laughter in the Dark even though I know what happens.
Written 23 years before Lolita, Laughter in the Dark may not have its successor's reach and subtlety, but it contains a final scene that is truly devastating. 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 masterpiece as Albinus, an aging critic, falls prey to his own desires, to his teenage mistress, and to Axel Rex, the. Vladimir Nabokov () said he dreamed of turning his readers into spectators. His dream had come true in his lifetime. The writer made his readers sink into the semantic abyss of his texts.
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