num_pages: 163
description: 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. With shattering immediacy, Nabokov takes us into a deranged world, one full of an impudent, startling humour, dominated by the egotistical and scornful figure of a murderer who thinks himself an artist.
language: English
title: Despair
titlecomplete: Despair
characters: Lydia Karlovich, Hermann Karlovich
genres: 20th Century, American, Russia, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Russian Literature, Classics, Mystery, Fiction
ratings_count: 9754
places: Berlin, Prague (Praha)
publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)