num_pages: 184
description: Albinus -- rich, married, middle-aged and respectable -- is an art critic and aspiring filmmaker who lusts after the coquettish young cinema usherette Margot. Gradually he seduces her and convinces himself that he is irresistible to her, but Margot has other plans. She wants to be a film star, and when Albinus introduces her to the American movie producer Axel Rex, she sees her chance -- and plotting, duplicity and tragedy ensue.Deadpan and devilishly funny, Laughter in the Dark is a tense, teasing account of lust, infatuation and self-deception.
language: English
title: Laughter in the Dark
titlecomplete: Laughter in the Dark
characters: Margot Peters, Albert Albinus, Elisabeth Albinus, Axel Rex
genres: Fiction, Literature, Classics, Novels, Germany, Russian Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Russia, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 17332
places: Berlin
publisher: Penguin Books