Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780141191188
Publisert
2009-11-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Classics
Vekt
81 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
7 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
96
Forfatter
Oversetter
Om bidragsyterne
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.
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.
Les mer
A novella in which a middle-aged man weds an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her daughter.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780141191188
Publisert
2009-11-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Classics
Vekt
81 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
7 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
96
Forfatter
Oversetter