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>         --The Bastard Karamozov on Guitar

And the strong reader crosses the equator reading Rilke,
but like Ahab, he lacks imagination and can only prepare a pasteboard
face
to meet the faces of destruction and murder. 


Numerous critics have noted that Despair is the first major work by
Nabokov in which the author resorts to intertextual strategies and
stratagems--to literary parody, disguised polemic, cunning play with
several superimposed subtexts, and so on. "Behind Despair stands a
nexus of allusions so dense, so rich, that progressing through their
labyrinth would require another Holmes," wrote William C. Carroll
in a pioneering article that tracks some very important routes inside
this labyrinth leading to Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky,
Oscar Wilde, and Conan Doyle. 

The Caning of Modernist Profaners: Parody in Despair
by Alexander Dolinin