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| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
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| Original title | Отчаяние |
| Translator | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Language | Russian |
| Publisher | Sovremennye Zapiski Publishing House; John Long Ltd. (London )(first English-language edition); Putnam (2nd English version) |
Publication date | 1934 |
| Publication place | Germany |
Published in English | 1937 (revised by the author in 1965) |
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Despair (Russian: Отчаяние, or Otchayanie) is the seventh novel by Vladimir Nabokov, originally published in Russian, serially in the politicized literary journal Sovremennye zapiski during 1934. It was then published as a book in 1936, and translated to English by the author in 1937. Most copies of the 1937 English edition were destroyed by German bombs during World War II; only a few copies remain. Nabokov published a second English translation in 1965; this is now the only English translation in print.