Camera Obscura (1931, published .) 1932-1933) - the fifth Russian novel by Vladimir Nabokov and the second of his three novels on the "German" theme Berlin art historian Bruno Kretschmar, fascinated by the talentless sixteen-year-old actress Magda Peter, the secret mistress of the artist Robert Horn, abandons his family and is involved in a mock circumartistic circle, unaware that the consequences of this vulgar affair will be fatal for him. The common expression “love is blind” is realized in Nabokov in the form of a criminal plot about passion, betrayal, jealousy and revenge, and physical blindness that strikes the hero in the final becomes a punishment for spiritual blindness, for a distorted vision of the world, for betrayal of kindness, humanity and true beauty. The most cinematic, according to critics, Nabokov’s novel was subsequently radically revised by the author for an English-language publication entitled Laughter in the Dark (1938).