Laughter in the dark / by Vladimir Nabokov

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Vintage internationalPublication details: New York : Vintage Books , 1989, c1965.Edition: 1st Vintage international edDescription: 292 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780679724506
Uniform titles:
  • Kamera obskura . English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • FIC NAB
LOC classification:
  • PG3476.N3 K313 1989
Summary: 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.
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Translation of: Kamera obskura.

"Originally published in paperback by New Directions Paperbook, in 1978"--T.p. verso.

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.

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