Laughter in the Dark

Name: Laughter in the Dark
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780679724506

Vladimir Nabokov

17/12/1989
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Laughter in the Dark par Vladimir Nabokov

Résumé

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 scheming rival for her affections who finds his greatest joy in the downfall of others. "Both hilarious and deliciously cruel." -The Guardian 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.