Despair
by Nabokov, Vladimir
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born on April 23, 1899, in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Nabokovs were known for their high culture and commitment to public service, and the elder Nabokov was an outspoken opponent of antisemitism and one of the leaders of the opposition party, the Kadets. In 1919, following the Bolshevik revolution, he took his family into exile. Four years later he was shot and killed at a political rally in Berlin while trying to shield the speaker from right-wing assassins. The Nabokov household was trilingual, and as a child Nabokov was already reading Wells, Poe, Browning, Keats, Flaubert, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, alongside the popular entertainments of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jules Verne. As a young man, he studied Slavic and romance languages at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his honors degree in 1922. For the next eighteen years he lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin and supporting himself through translations, lessons in English and tennis, and by composing the first crossword puzzles in Russian. In 1925 he married Vera Slonim, with whom he had one child, a son, Dmitri. Having already fled Russia and Germany, Nabokov became a refugee once more in 1940, when he was forced to leave France for the United States. There he taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He also gave up writing in Russian and began composing fiction in English. In his afterword to Lolita he claimed: "My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses--the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions--which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way." [p. 317] Yet Nabokov's American period saw the creation of what are arguably his greatest works, Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962), as well as the translation of his earlier Russian novels into English. He also undertook English translations of works by Lermontov and Pushkin and wrote several books of criticism. Vladimir Nabokov died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons [1966], 1966. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], 7-222, [2] pp. Bound in black cloth with author's initials in blind in an oval on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; lavender topstain. Lavender endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Despair (Original photograph from the set of the 1978 film)
by Vladimir Nabokov (novel); Rainer Werner Fassbinder (director); Tom Stoppard (screenwriter); Dirk Bograde, Andrea Ferreol, Klaus Lowitsch, Volker Spengler (starring)
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Munich: Bavaria Atelier, 1978. Vintage borderless photograph of Rainer Werner Fassbinder on the set of the 1978 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso.
Based on the 1936 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. Herman Herman (Dirk Bograde), a Russian immigrant and Jewish business owner in Berlin is targeted by Nazis. While slowly losing his… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. First edition thus. Hardcover. 222pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth. Very good. The edges of the covers are very slightly faded. The dust jacket is in very good condition. The edges are lightly creased and chipped, and have several short closed tears. "Despair's protagonist, Hermann, is another masterly portrait in the fascinating… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Published in New York by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1966. First Edition book with Second Edition DJ. Book fine except for slight fading on top and bottom edges of front cover. DJ near fine except for rubbing on corners, creasing on top and bottom edges… Read more about this item Item Price
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Despair
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