Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Tragedy of a rich and respectable Berlin art dealer and his passion for his young mistress.

Laughter in the Dark

Literally spent three years trying to find this book and (again) it was worth it. This 100% should be the Nabokov book that gets all the hype, and we are fake for not making that happen. 

Jacque

chris

first few lines are iconic; nabokov excels here where he puts his characters in difficult moral positions, he shades the dailiness of cruelty and manipulation really well (details like Margot inconsequentially describing the wrong colours in the room to Albinus go hard), and he never winces in his depiction of complete lust-driven callousness; maybe because of the wont of contemporary literature i found myself wanting some degree of nuance, like maybe Margot doesn't need to be a "vulgar Berlin girl" a la devil-adjacent femme fatale, maybe Albinus doesn't need to be the antihero who casts off his lovely wife and dead child, maybe Rex doesn't need to be the heinous writer-lover who inexplicably spends his days tormenting Albinus in the last quarter of the book

Jeremy Boyd

Melih 

maariyah 

Albinus - rich, married middle-aged and respectable - is an art critic and aspiring filmmaker who lusts after the coquettish young cinema usherette Margot. Gradually he seduces her and convinces himself he is irresistible to her, but Margot has other plans. She wants to be a film star, and when Albinus introduces her to the American movie producer Axel Rex, she sees her chance - and plotting, duplicity and tragedy ensue.

Emma

Karen Scarlet 

Ivy X

Rachel O.

Charles McNeilll

Mariana 

Roel Vandenhoeck

Irene Alegre

Lotte Dunnewold

Giovanni Garcia-Fenech 

A wealthy man in early twentieth-century Berlin is attracted to a lovely young girl and abandons his wife and home to begin a disastrous and unrequited love affair

joyce ian 

Laura

La jeune Magda de Chambre obscure préfigure déjà l'illustre Lolita. Femme-enfant à la fois destructrice et insignifiante, elle entre dans la vie de son amant, respectable bourgeois, pour sa joie et pour son malheur. On ne peut suivre que fasciné ce lent glissement vers l'enfer d'un homme possédé par l'amour impossible.

Laughter in the Dark

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