Despair

Despairis it a crime in itself for two people to be as alike as two drops of blood--and which of them was the impeccable hermann, which the ubiquitous felix?Part Iof a novelForewordThe Russian text of Despair (Otchayanie--a far more sonorous howl) was written in 1932, in Berlin. The émigré review Sovremennye Zapiski, in Paris, serialized it in the course of 1934, and the émigré publishing house Petropolis, in Berlin, published the book in 1936. As has happened in the case of all my other works,...