Amidst a Weimar-era milieu of silent film stars, artists, and aspirants, Nabokov creates a merciless masterpiece as Albinus, an aging critic, falls prey to his own desires, to his teenage mistress, and to Axel Rex, the scheming rival for her affections who finds his greatest joy in the downfall of others.
“Both hilarious and deliciously cruel.” –The Guardian 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.Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 12/17/1989
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.19w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780679724506
Language: English
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