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. With Shattering Immediacy, Nabokov Takes Us Into a Deranged World, One Full of an Impudent, Startling Humour, Dominated by the Egotistical and Scornful Figure of a Murderer Who Thinks Himself an Artist.