Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
Auflage | 2000 |
Seiten | 176 |
Format | 13 x 19,8 x 1,5 cm |
Gewicht | 137 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Penguin Modern Classics |
ISBN-10 | 014118454X |
EAN | 9780141184548 |
Bestell-Nr | 14118454EA |
Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with a man he believes to be his double reveals a frightening \'split\' in Hermann\'s nature.
Klappentext:
\'A work of rapture - jolting, hilarious and incredibly racy\' Martin Amis, The Times
Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with Felix, a man he believes to be his double, reveals a frightening \'split\' in Hermann\'s nature. Convinced that he has found his doppelgänger, Hermann uses this discovery to weave a money-making plan that leads to disguise, betrayal and eventually murder.
Filled with impudent, startling humour, and dominated by the egotistical and scornful figure of a killer who thinks himself an artist, Despair takes us into a deranged world of doubles and illusions, where nothing is quite as it seems.