Overview
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 a man he believes to be his double reveals a frightening 'split' in Hermann's nature.
''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 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.
- | Author: Vladimir Nabokov
- | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- | Publication Date: Nov 30, 2000
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- | Language: eng
- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780141184548
- | ISBN-10: 014118454X