The Enchanter
Author
Original Work
Translator
Foreword / Afterword
Dmitri Nabokov
Language
Year
1986
Publisher
Country
United States
Pages
127
ISBN
9780399132117
Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published twenty years later, as 'the first little throb of Lolita'. The plot is similar: a middle-aged man wedding an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her daughter. However, The Enchanter has an utterly different atmosphere, as time, place and even names remain a mystery. Nabokov transforms his protagonist's attempts to lull his twelve-year-old step-daughter into a state of 'enchantment' into a graceful, chilling fairytale.— Google Books
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