Laughter in the Dark
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I have to confess, it's been long enough since I last read this one that I don't recall the details of the plot (I found boarding passes from a trip I took to San Diego in 1996 tucked inside the pages). I do remember that, as usual, Nabokov delights with his mastery of language and imagery. His achievement is particularly impressive considering this is his English translation of a novel he originally wrote in Russian, with the title Kamera obscura.
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.
I have to confess, it's been long enough since I last read this one that I don't recall the details of the plot (I found boarding passes from a trip I took to San Diego in 1996 tucked inside the pages). I do remember that, as usual, Nabokov delights with his mastery of language and imagery. His achievement is particularly impressive considering this is his English translation of a novel he originally wrote in Russian, with the title Kamera obscura.
Mailed to JDT on Dec. 31, 2003, after accepted on CasualReader's BookRelay site, in the ESL Fiction relay: http://www.casualreader.net/bookrelay/relay.php?id=35.
I like the cover art!
And who can resist a Russian novel of desire, deceit, and deception?!
Thanks for this book relay, anavolena!
And who can resist a Russian novel of desire, deceit, and deception?!
Thanks for this book relay, anavolena!
Sent to bookmaniac70 in Bulgaria - part of a book relay.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Received today from the hands of the postwoman.I forgot about accepting this book on Relay site,so it was a nice surprise.Thank you so much for sending it!
I`m organising a small bookring for this book.
Participants:
safrolistics (UK)
okyrhoe (Greece)
dospescados (US)
----->back to me
Participants:
safrolistics (UK)
okyrhoe (Greece)
dospescados (US)
----->back to me
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Sent to safrolistics.
Sent to safrolistics.
Journal Entry 8 by Safrolistics from Newbiggin-By-The-Sea, Northumberland United Kingdom on Friday, January 27, 2006
Received today, thanks bookmaniac70
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Journal Entry 9 by Safrolistics from Newbiggin-By-The-Sea, Northumberland United Kingdom on Thursday, February 2, 2006
I was surprised at how light I found the reading, did think it was going to be a bit heavy going!Just waiting for the address of the next on the ring, and then I'll post it out.
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Arrived in my mailbox today. Thanks bookmaniac70 & safrolistics!
The nastification of the "great European" adultery novel. The black humor here cuts very deep, maybe a little too sadistic, too starkly black/white, compared to the multiplicitous subleties of hue in Lolita.
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On its way to dospescados.
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On its way to dospescados.
