num_pages: 222
description: Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.
title: Despair
titlecomplete: Despair
characters: Lydia Karlovich, Hermann Karlovich
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Russian Literature, 20th Century, Classics, American, Russia, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 9755
places: Prague (Praha), Berlin
publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons