Rich, respectable, happy albert albinus lives in berlin with his wife and daughter, but abandons them for young margot peters, whom he loves but is not loved in return. The main characters of this fiction, classics story are. Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written that is. Listen and youll hear the joyful laughter of god spill over into a sour world. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link page. How nabokov retranslated laughter in the dark the new. The first paragraph, with its casual indifference to any pretense of realistic suspense, is the key to this novel. The screening i attended was a riot of laughter from start to. Laughter in the dark quotes showing 117 of 17 a certain man once lost a diamond cufflink in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a friday apparently, he was eating a large fish but there was no diamond inside.
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