
Laughter in the Dark
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Narrated by:
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Luke Daniels
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By:
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Vladimir Nabokov
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. 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.
One of the 20th century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977. ©1969 Vladimir Nabokov (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Better story than Lolita? But is this his only theme?
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But I also don't think Lolita is a great intro either...I only picked up his Short Stories after consulting my most well-read friend & complaining about the, at times, excruciatingly repetitive nature of Lolita's narrator's obsessions (granted I had seen Kubrick's movie version pre-reading so that eliminated all suspense).
While I found Laughter in the Dark thoroughly entertaining, it was in part because I spent much of the time thinking about how much different it was than the Nabokov I have read.
If you want an intro to the magic of Nabokov, I highly recommend his short stories. Read/listen to this one later!
My 3rd Nabokov novel (not incl. his 100 short stories collection)
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In this novel, Nabokov is playing with themes of vision, blindness, truth, deception, art and morality. You see many of Nabokov's later motifs surrounding vision floating (like mouches volantes) through this early work: mirrors, window pains, mimicry, scintillations, semblances, glasses, movies, etc. It wouldn't be Nabokov if he played any of these themes straight. He bends the narrative and plays with Tolstoy's belief that it is "the essential nature of truth to be hidden from, then revealed to, the eyes." Nabokov gives you the goods and gives them to you good and hard right between the eyes.
Death is often the point of life's joke
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Nabokov is excellent and this is a good intro
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Does Anyone Know the Moral of this Story?
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brilliant
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