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Despair

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"Despair" (1934) is Vladimir Nabokov's sixth novel, written in Berlin, and his third, following "King, Queen, Jack" and "Camera Obscura," a psychological crime novel that rejects the conventions of the genre. Hermann, a Berlin businessman of Russian-German descent, convinced of his own genius, plots a crime that, like a work of art, is destined to be a masterpiece of ingenuity and flawless execution. Life, however, proves far wittier and more artistic than the vicious plot, whose distorting mirror merely distorts reality. The first-person narrative, the narrator's belief in his own exceptionalism, and the brilliant prose draw "Despair" closer to "Lolita," written twenty years later.
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