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Despair - Vladimir Nabokov
Despair
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The protagonist, a neurotic scoundrel, undertakes the perfect crime: his own murder.
The protagonist, a neurotic scoundrel, undertakes the perfect crime: his own murder.
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9780307787668 (0307787664)
ASIN: 9780307787668
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics, Novels, Literature, Cultural, Literary Fiction, 20th Century, Russia, Russian Literature, Fiction
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Vladimir Nabokov is a genius. In Lolita his genius is manifest in the perversion of human sympathies, the seduction of language, the durability of art (yet also the mortality of beauty). In Despair, one of Nabokov's first forays into English prose, there is an early adumbration of what will become t...
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