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Nastoyaschee izdanie vklyuchaet v sebya dva proizvedeniya Nabokova, kotorye napisany v nachale 1940-h pered ego otezdom iz Evropy v SSHA. 'Volshebnik' – povest, v kotoroy Nabokov vpervye razrabatyvaet temu 'Lolity'. Zamysel syuzheta Nabokov opisal v posleslovii k 'Lolite' 1956 goda: 'On [glavnyy geroy] u menya zhenilsya na bolnoy materi devochki, skoro ovdovel i posle neudachnoy popytki prilaskatsya k sirotke v otelnom nomere brosilsya pod kolesa gruzovika.' 'Solus Rex' – nezakonchennyy trud, 'roman prizraka', kak nazval ego sam Nabokov. On sostoit iz dvuh glav: pervaya – pismo hudozhnika k nedavno umershey zhene, vtoraya – istoriya o pravitele dalekogo poluskazochnogo korolevstva. Eti proizvedeniya, v otlichie ot bolshinstva proizvedeniy Nabokova, lish edinozhdy byli izdany na russkom yazyke i proshli pochti nezamechennymi dlya russkogo chitatelya.