Despair

DespairPart IVof a novelSynopsis: In a comfortable flat in Berlin dwell our narrator, Hermann, a chocolate merchant; his wife, Lydia; and their maid, Elsie. A frequent visitor is the painter Ardalion, Lydia's cousin. Another caller is the philosophic Orlovius.Although he is unaware of it at the time, Hermann's life reaches an ominous turning point when, during a business trip to Prague, he meets Felix, an unemployed wanderer, and immediately decides that the latter is his double. Felix, however,...