# Despair

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- Book: [Despair](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabakov/despair) ([Despair.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabakov/despair.md))
- Authors: [Vladimir Nabakov](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabakov)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-454-8
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2016-02-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 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.