Despair
Book formats
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Book short specifications
- Author
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Series
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Language
- english
- Release date
- November 30, 2000
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-118454-8
- GTIN
- 9780141184548
- Weight, g
- 168
- Publisher's website
- penguin.co.uk
About
'A work of rapture — jolting, hilarious and incredibly racy' Martin Amis, The Times
Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with Felix, a man he believes to be his double, reveals a frightening 'split' in Hermann's nature. Convinced that he has found his doppelgänger, Hermann uses this discovery to weave a money-making plan that leads to disguise, betrayal and eventually murder.
Filled with impudent, startling humour, and dominated by the egotistical and scornful figure of a killer who thinks himself an artist, Despair takes us into a deranged world of doubles and illusions, where nothing is quite as it seems.