Despair

About This Novel

Nabokov began writing "Despair" in Russian in Berlin in 1932, and serialized it in a Russian exile publication in Paris, France two years later; at the end of 1936, Nabokov rewrote the novel in English, making it his first English novel created for "artistic purposes." In this novel, Nabokov conducted a fruitful exploration of the psychological operating mechanism of mass society. In Nabokov's view, the crazy pursuit of identity is the source of despair for unique individuals in mass society.

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