By Vladimir Nabokov
Extensively revised via Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its unique publication--Despair is the wickedly creative and richly derisive tale of Hermann, a guy who undertakes the precise crime--his personal murder.
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Guernica, les Allemands expérimentent les bombardements de terreur à destination des populations civiles désarmées. Bientôt, Franco et ses mercenaires marocains entrent dans Bilbao. L’Italie quitte la SDN. Hitler rêve tout haut d’une « Grande Allemagne ». Le ministère Blum chute. En France, on commence à cesser de rêver… D’autant que l’extrême droite relève la tête. Son aile secrète, « la Cagoule », assassine et organise des attentats à l’explosif. Mais son aile « publique » s’affiche en se mobilisant contre les « profiteurs métèques venus en France pour manger notre pain ».
Un très haut magistrat, le beau-frère de Chautemps, le président du Conseil, est mis en cause. Acculé dans un chalet, Stavisky se suicide d’étrange manière. ». C’est le scandale. Chargé d’un complément d’enquête, un brillant magistrat, le conseiller Prince, est retrouvé, à l’aube d’une nuit glacée, le corps déchiqueté sur les rails du Paris-Dijon, au lieu-dit « La Combe-aux-fées ». Nouveau scandale ! Un grand journal charge le romancier Georges Simenon de l’enquête mais le père de Maigret ne fait pas d’étincelles.
Assurément, en cette seconde partie des années 1930, il faut être très inconscient, ou très protégé, pour y échapper. Mais Georgette et Michel veulent avant tout goûter aux joies du mariage et surtout au plaisir nouveau de vivre ensemble, chaque jour et chaque nuit. Avant la naissance du bébé, il y a encore les sorties en amoureux, les petits restaurants du quartier des Halles ou des boulevards, parfois le cinéma ou le concert, le théâtre, aussi, et, lors de ce beau début d’automne, les promenades au bois de Boulogne ou en bord de Marne.