Lichberg later became a prominent journalist in the Nazi era, and his youthful works faded from view. The author of the story I’ve described, Heinz von Lichberg, published his tale of Lolita in 1916, forty years before Vladimir Nabokov’s novel. The name of the girl supplies the title of the story: Lolita. In the end she dies, and the narrator - marked by her forever - remains alone. Heedless of her age, he becomes intimate with her. She is a preteen, whose charms instantly enslave him. The moment he sees the daughter of the house, he is lost. All mankind is of one author, and is one volume when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language and every chapter must be so translated. . . .-John DonneĬonsider this tale: a cultivated man of middle age looks back on the story of an amour fou, one beginning when, traveling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger.
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