DESPAIR

Despair

Despair is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov originally published as a serial 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.

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despair

Noun

  1. Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
    He turned around in despair, aware that he was not going to survive
  2. That which is despaired of.

Verb

  1. To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
  2. To cause to despair.
  3. To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.


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