Despair

despairPart II of a novelwhat strange compulsion drove the merchant to precipitate this fateful confrontation with his wastrel double?Synopsis: A curious fellow, to be sure, is the insouciant Hermann, a man as fond of himself as Narcissus. Indeed, Hermann rarely passes a mirror without a backward glance. He is a Russian-born chocolate merchant who lives what one could perhaps call a happy life, in a small but attractive flat in Berlin, with his wife Lydia, a good-natured, careless, sensual woman...