# Despair

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- Authors: [Vladimir Nabokov](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2012-03-01
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Classic fiction: literary and general, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Fiction in translation

## 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.

## Editions

### Despair

- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-454-8
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2016-02-04
- Language: en_GB

### Despair

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-140-3
- Published: 2012-03-01
- Language: en_GB

### Despair

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7972-343-1
- Pages: 240
- Published: 1989-05-14
- Language: en_US

## This book in other languages

- [Verzweiflung](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/de/verzweiflung) (de_DE)
- [Desesperación](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/es/desesperacion) (es_ES)
- [Rozpacz](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/pl/rozpacz) (pl_PL)
- [Desespero](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/pt/desespero) (pt_PT)