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Nabokov's Despair Rated among His Finest Novels
Eliot Fremont-Smith reviews Vladimir Nabokov's Despair, noting the Berlin era Russian émigré Hermann Karlovich, his obsession with mirrors and doubles, and the novel's challenging, provocative tone. The piece places Despair alongside Nabokov's Pale Fire Lolita and The Defense as archetypal anti-hero fiction.
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Eliot Fremont-Smith
New York Times
Vladimir Nabokov
Putnam
Humbert Humbert
Lolita
Timofy Pain
Pain
Aleksandr Luzhin
The
Defense
Hermann Karlovich
Berlin
Hermann
Prague
Lydia
Nabokov