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"A leading German scholar reveals his astonishing discovery about Nabokov's influential novel Does it ring a bell? The first-person narrator, a cultivated man of middle age, looks back on the story of an amour fou. It all starts when, traveling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger. The moment he sees the daughter of the house, he is lost. She is a pre-teen, whose charms instantly enslave him. Heedless of her age, he becomes intimate with her. In the end she dies, and the narrator marked by her forever remains alone. The name of the girl supplies the title of the story: Lolita. We know the girl and her story, and we know the title. But the author was Heinz von Eschwege, whose tale of Lolita appeared in 1916 under the pseudonym Heinz von Lichberg, forty years before Nabokov's celebrated novel took the world by storm. Von Lichberg later became a prominent journalist in the Nazi era, and his youthful work faded from view. The Two Lolitas uncovers a remarkable series of parallels between the two works and their authors--too many to make coincidence the most likely explanation. How did Vladimir Nabokov know of von Lichberg's long out-of-print tale? And why might he, the grand master of re

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Author

Michael Maar, Perry Anderson, Daniel Kehlmann

Publisher

Verso Books

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781786631848

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Memoir, Biography

Rating

3.33 / 5 (29 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14