The Enchanter - Couverture souple

Nabokov, Vladimir

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 014119118X ISBN 13 : 9780141191188

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2009

Synopsis

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 propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 014119118X
• ISBN 13: 9780141191188
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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