Laughter in the Dark (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Vladimir Nabokov
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Love
- Time of Work: The late 1920’s or early 1930’s
- Setting: Berlin, the south of France, and Switzerland
- Genres: Long fiction, Metafiction
- Subjects: France or French people, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Blindness or blind persons, Betrayal, 1920’s, 1930’s, Obsession, Adultery, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Romanticism, Switzerland or Swiss people, Berlin
- Locales: France, Berlin, Germany, Switzerland
Characters Discussed
Albert Albinus, an independently wealthy German art collector and art critic. This shy, scholarly, middle- aged family man lives a staid upper-middle-class existence but has always longed for a passionate love affair. He foolishly falls in love with a trollop half his age whose treachery causes him to lose his wife, his daughter, his eyesight, much money, and finally his life. He is a well-meaning, good-natured victim of his repressed libido. Most of the story is told through his point of view.
Margot Peters, an usherette who becomes Albinus’...
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