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Despair
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Series: Vintage International
Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
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ISBN10: 0679723439
ISBN13: 9780679723431
Publisher: Vintage
Published: May 14 1989
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780679723431
Publisher: Vintage
Published: May 14 1989
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
The wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder. - A beautiful mystery plot, not to be revealed. - Newsweek
Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically. - John Updike
Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically. - John Updike
One of Mr. Nabokov's finest, most challenging and provocative novels. - The New York Times
Despair's protagonist, Hermann, is another masterly portrait in the fascinating gallery of living characters Vladmir Nabokov has given to world literature. In his pseudo wordliness, his odd genius, Hermann is one with such other heteroclitic neurotic Nabokovian creations as Humbert Humbert and Charles Kimbote. Rapt in his own reality, incapable of escaping or explicating it, he is as solitary in his abyss as Luzhin or Charlotte Haze of Lolita. Despair is illuminated throughout by the virtuosity and cunning wit that are Vladimir Nabokov's hallmarks.
Despair's protagonist, Hermann, is another masterly portrait in the fascinating gallery of living characters Vladmir Nabokov has given to world literature. In his pseudo wordliness, his odd genius, Hermann is one with such other heteroclitic neurotic Nabokovian creations as Humbert Humbert and Charles Kimbote. Rapt in his own reality, incapable of escaping or explicating it, he is as solitary in his abyss as Luzhin or Charlotte Haze of Lolita. Despair is illuminated throughout by the virtuosity and cunning wit that are Vladimir Nabokov's hallmarks.
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