Volshebnik
Stepfathers
Russian fiction
Deviant behavior
Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
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Fiction
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 u…
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