Despair
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Despair
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Narrated by:
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Christopher Lane
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By:
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Vladimir Nabokov
About this listen
Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965 - 30 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.
One of the 20th century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.
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Critic reviews
Nabokov’s performance in creating this monstrous unreliable narrator is tongue in cheek throughout. Lane’s reading amplifies the humour and absurdity with poise and assurance.
Reading with a post Lolita perspective, it is not hard to see in Despair an early dry run which would lead in due course to the appalling Humbert Humbert.
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