A literary scholar has suggested that Lolita was inpsired by a 1916 novella by Heinz von Lichberg, a Nazi journalist.
"When you read it today and compare it with the [Nabokov] novel, you do get a light feeling of surreality and deja vu," Mr Maar said.Von Eschwege and Nabokov lived in the same area of Berlin for 15 years, which Mr Maar believes makes it possible that the Russian read the earlier work.
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