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The Enchanter
A Literary Fiction Novel by Vladimir Nabokov
Subgenres:
- Psychological Fiction,
- Dark Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Psychological portraits of obsession and moral descent
- Disturbing inner monologues that push literary boundaries
The precursor to Nabokov's classic novel, Lolita.
A middle-aged man weds an unattractive widow in order to indulge his obsession with her daughter.
The unnamed protagonist of the story is, outwardly, a respectable and comfortable man; inside, he churns at the pubescent femininity of certain girls. Rare girls – one in a thousand – whose coltish grace and subconscious flirtatiousness betray, to his obsessed mind, a very special bud on the moist verge of its bloom.
Sitting on a park bench one day, he is tantalized by the fleeting form of just such a girl roller-skating on a gravel path. His desire to be near this beauty burns in him and drives him to begin a courtship of the child's pitiful mother – a course that can end only in the disintegration of his life.
Over the years, the idea of The Enchanter grew; it changed; it developed "claws and wings." By 1953 it was ready to furnish the basic theme of Lolita.
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