This edition includes two works by Nabokov, written in the early 1940s before his departure from Europe to the USA. “The Wizard” is a novella in which Nabokov first explores the theme of “Lolita.” The plot concept was described by...
Nabokov in the afterword to “Lolita” in 1956: “He [the main character] married the sick mother of the girl, soon became a widower, and after an unsuccessful attempt to caress the orphan in a hotel room, threw himself under a truck.” “Solus Rex” is an unfinished work, a “ghost novel,” as Nabokov himself referred to it. It consists of two chapters: the first is a letter from an artist to his recently deceased wife, and the second is a story about the ruler of a distant semi-fairytale kingdom. These works, unlike most of Nabokov's works, were published only once in Russian and went almost unnoticed by the Russian reader.
This edition includes two works by Nabokov, written in the early 1940s before his departure from Europe to the USA. “The Wizard” is a novella in which Nabokov first explores the theme of “Lolita.” The plot concept was described by Nabokov in the afterword to “Lolita” in 1956: “He [the main character] married the sick mother of the girl, soon became a widower, and after an unsuccessful attempt to caress the orphan in a hotel room, threw himself under a truck.” “Solus Rex” is an unfinished work, a “ghost novel,” as Nabokov himself referred to it. It consists of two chapters: the first is a letter from an artist to his recently deceased wife, and the second is a story about the ruler of a distant semi-fairytale kingdom. These works, unlike most of Nabokov's works, were published only once in Russian and went almost unnoticed by the Russian reader.
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