a fascinating work of true crime literature and a singular book by one of the most defiantly original writers of our time
Despair is one of the Endless, fictional characters from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.
Despair (ОтчаÑние (Otchayanie) in Russian) was written by Vladimir Nabokov and originally published as a serial in Sovremennye Zapiski during 1934. It was then published as a book in 1936 and later translated to English by the author in 1937.