The Enchanter

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The Enchanter

First edition
Author	Vladimir Nabokov
Original title	Волшебник (Volshebnik)
Translator	Dmitri Nabokov
Language	Russian
Publisher	G. P. Putnam's Sons
Publication date	1986
Published in English	1986

The Enchanter (Russian: Волшебник, romanized: Volshebnik) is a novella written by Vladimir Nabokov in Paris in 1939. It was his last work of fiction written in Russian. Nabokov never published it during his lifetime. After his death, his son Dmitri translated the novella into English in 1986 and it was published the following year. Its original Russian version became available in 1991. The story deals with the hebephilia of the protagonist and thus is linked to and presages the Lolita theme.