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Michael Maar's evidence on the Lolita/Lichberg issue.
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Michael Maars new book on "Lolita and the German lieutenant" has appeared in
Germany. The
edition features a reprint of Lichberg's "Lolita".
http://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/hp_2005_2/41716.htm
Maar presents new evidence for the intertextual relationship between Lichberg's
Lolita from 1916
and Nabokov's masterpiece.
Maar slightly modifies his former thesis on cryptomnesia and suggests that
Nabokov may have
alluded to the Lichberg story by pointing mysteriously to a "spanish child of an
aristocrate" in his
novel. In the screenplay for "Lolita" Nabokov even calls Lolita "Gioconda" von
Lichberg's collection
of stories bears the title "The Cursed Gioconda". Moreover, Maar discovered in
the same collection
another short story by Lichberg ("Atomit") which anticipates the plot of
Nabokov's play "The Waltz
Invention".
Ulrich Schmid
Slavic Dept.
Ruhr-University Bochum
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Germany. The
edition features a reprint of Lichberg's "Lolita".
http://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/hp_2005_2/41716.htm
Maar presents new evidence for the intertextual relationship between Lichberg's
Lolita from 1916
and Nabokov's masterpiece.
Maar slightly modifies his former thesis on cryptomnesia and suggests that
Nabokov may have
alluded to the Lichberg story by pointing mysteriously to a "spanish child of an
aristocrate" in his
novel. In the screenplay for "Lolita" Nabokov even calls Lolita "Gioconda" von
Lichberg's collection
of stories bears the title "The Cursed Gioconda". Moreover, Maar discovered in
the same collection
another short story by Lichberg ("Atomit") which anticipates the plot of
Nabokov's play "The Waltz
Invention".
Ulrich Schmid
Slavic Dept.
Ruhr-University Bochum
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