The Ecstasy of Influence

[Ya Sam]

Consider 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. The moment he sees the daughter of the house, he is lost. She is a 
preteen, whose charms instantly enslave him. Heedless of her age, he becomes 
intimate with her. In the end she dies, and the narrator—marked by her 
forever—remains alone. The name of the girl supplies the title of the story: 
Lolita.

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.

http://www.harpers.org/TheEcstasyOfInfluence.html

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