Laughter in the Dark

by Vladimir Nabokov Narrated by Luke Daniels

Overview

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.

Editorial Reviews

Library Journal

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. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

John Updike

"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written—that is, ecstatically."

From the Publisher

"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written that is, a ecstatically." —John Updike

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172349935
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	02/20/2011
Edition description:	Unabridged

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