Description
In 1920s Berlin, a prosperous, middle-aged art critic finds his carefully ordered life unraveling as desire and dissatisfaction collide. When Albert Albinus abandons his wife for a younger woman—less for love than for the freedom and glamour she represents—his choices set off a chain of consequences that expose the fragile theater of identity, taste, and self-justification. With Nabokov’s signature precision and sly, unsettling wit, the novel blends psychological insight with a sharp, almost playful critique of obsession, morality, and the stories people tell themselves. Laughter in the Dark is a darkly comic exploration of midlife crisis, power, and the uneasy boundary between performance and truth.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Classics
Published Oct 25, 2001
208 pages
ISBN: 9780141186528
paperback
Relógio D'Água Editores
Published Jan 1, 2013
216 pages
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Details
First Published
1938
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov.