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Camera obscura

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Camera Obscura (1933) is Vladimir Nabokov's fifth novel, written in Berlin and published under the pseudonym V. Sirin.

The blind passion of the wealthy art critic Bruno Kretschmar for the sixteen-year-old model Magda, who dreams of a luxurious life and a cinematic career, leads the hero to the loss of his family, a moral catastrophe, and physical blindness. Deceived and helpless, Kretschmar becomes the plaything of Magda's cruel lover, the cartoonist Robert Horn.

The picturesque precision of detail, the psychological precision of the characters, the novelty of the narrative techniques, and the ruthlessness of a true artist with which Nabokov treats his theme, which astounded readers and critics, anticipated his other famous novel about a fatal passion, Lolita.
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