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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679723439
ISBN-139780679723431
eBay Product ID (ePID)195375
Product Key Features
Book TitleDespair
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicThrillers / Psychological, Literary, Noir
Publication Year1989
GenreFiction
AuthorVladimir Nabokov
Book SeriesVintage International Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight7.2 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN88-040533
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813.5/4
SynopsisThe wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder. * "A beautiful mystery plot, not to be revealed." - Newsweek "Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." - John Updike "One of Mr. Nabokov's finest, most challenging and provocative novels." - The New York Times Despair's protagonist, Hermann, is another masterly portrait in the fascinating gallery of living characters Vladmir Nabokov has given to world literature. In his pseudo wordliness, his odd genius, Hermann is one with such other heteroclitic neurotic Nabokovian creations as Humbert Humbert and Charles Kimbote. Rapt in his own reality, incapable of escaping or explicating it, he is as solitary in his abyss as Luzhin or Charlotte Haze of Lolita . Despair is illuminated throughout by the virtuosity and cunning wit that are Vladimir Nabokov's hallmarks., 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.
LC Classification NumberPG3476.N3O83 1989
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