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The Enchanter (Novella)

✍ Scribed by Vladimir Nabokov

Publisher: Vintage International
Year: 1939
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 228 KB
Edition: First Vintage International Edition (1991)
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0679725318

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✦ Synopsis

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Paperback, 114 pages
Published 1939
First Vintage International Edition (1991)
Copyright by Dmitri Nabokov (1986)
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.
A middle-aged, well-off, outwardly respectable man sits on a park bench, contemplating the depths of his 'murky soul' and his obsession with young girls. When he spies a coltish, russet-haired beauty on roller skates, he makes it his mission to seduce her, even if he must marry her ailing mother to do so. Planning his every move with the precision and coolness of a chess player, he ultimately choreographs his own downfall. Anticipating Nabokov's masterpiece Lolita in its themes and its black humour, this playful, mischievous and perfectly crafted story is at once hilarious and chilling.

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