"Despair" (1934) is the sixth novel by Vladimir Nabokov, written in Berlin, and his third psychological-criminal novel, after "The King, Queen, Knave" and "The Eye," rejecting the conventions of this genre. Hermann, a Berlin merchant of Russian-German descent, convinced of...
his own genius, plots a crime that, like a work of art, should become a masterpiece of ingenuity and impeccable execution. However, life turns out to be much sharper and more artistic than the flawed scheme, whose distorted mirror only distorts reality. The first-person narrative form, the hero-narrator's belief in his own exceptionalism, and the brilliant prose bring "Despair" closer to "Lolita," written twenty years later.
"Despair" (1934) is the sixth novel by Vladimir Nabokov, written in Berlin, and his third psychological-criminal novel, after "The King, Queen, Knave" and "The Eye," rejecting the conventions of this genre. Hermann, a Berlin merchant of Russian-German descent, convinced of his own genius, plots a crime that, like a work of art, should become a masterpiece of ingenuity and impeccable execution. However, life turns out to be much sharper and more artistic than the flawed scheme, whose distorted mirror only distorts reality. The first-person narrative form, the hero-narrator's belief in his own exceptionalism, and the brilliant prose bring "Despair" closer to "Lolita," written twenty years later.
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