Despair

Yas (Despair) is a decisive and tangible boundary in Nabokov's creative path. It is characterized by works he wrote in the Russian era; it came in the style of detective novels, but it differs from the traditional detective novel style in that the narrator is the one who attended the crime, and he is the one who presents its backgrounds. All the leading critics of Russian expatriate literature unanimously agreed that Yas (Despair) is the pinnacle of the author's achievements up to that point, and even eternal rivals such as the well-known Russian critics Khodasevich and Adamovich agreed on a high evaluation of this work based on their analysis of the novel. The critics provided a deep description of Nabokov's creativity. Novel Yas (Despair) author Vladimir Nabokov translation Fahad Al-Hamrani number of pages 216 publisher Dar Al-Jamal for publishing and distribution