Despair

On a business trip to Prague, the shady chocolate manufacturer Hermann Karlowitsch believes he recognizes his double in the vagrant Felix, and a brilliant plan begins to form in his mind: he will kill the young man and thus fake his own death to collect the money from his life insurance. In his boundless arrogance, the narrator, a wannabe author and master criminal, boasts of his genius and soon finds himself in serious trouble. With gripping intensity read by Gert Westphal, Nabokov's literary mastery is clearly evident even in his early work. Unabridged reading with Gert Westphal, 1 mp3-CD, approximately 6 hours and 48 minutes.