Laughter In The Dark

Ganin, a young Russian exile, survives in interwar Berlin thanks to the most diverse jobs: waiter, door-to-door salesman, movie extra, etc.

At the same time, Ganin dreams of leaving the city and remembers his childhood and adolescence in his longed-for Russia and his early romance with Mary, a desired and idealized woman, a love lost in the past.

Mary is an early sample of Nabokov’s talent, and already contains many of the elements that make up the fascinating world of the brilliant author, as well as the admirable prose and the overflowing fabulous capacity that characterize his literary production.

Lolita is Nabokov's best-known novel, first published in 1955, about the relationship between a 40-year-old adult and his 12-year-old stepdaughter.

Not without controversy, it is considered by many critics and scholars to be a masterpiece of contemporary world literature and a modern classic.

Among the events that may have influenced Nabokov in his novel is the 1948 kidnapping of Florence Sally Horner, aged 11 or 12, according to some sources, who was abducted by a middle-aged man.

Philosophy has played a very important role in the minds of ancient writers, such is the case of the author Vladimir Nabokov, who with his literary works tried to communicate his thoughts about love, playing with what can be accepted within its barriers and what is forbidden.

The present book Ada or Ardor A Family Chronicle, is a controversial work of love full of sensuality, which confronts a philosophical thought about love between two people, who believing to be cousins fall passionately in love until discovering the darkest secret, it turns out that they were not cousins but brothers.

The characters' lives take an unexpected turn when they learn this heartbreaking truth, which they will have to face from an objective and not a subjective perspective in order to do the right thing.