These anonymous but highly literate Confessions describe in
prurient detail the sexual activities and perversions in Russia and
Italy before WW1. We know for certain that Nabokov read Victor X's
Confessions before writing Lolita, his best and most famous book
written in English. Victor X is Nabokov's hero Humbert Humbert in
action, but without any sexual inhibitions. Much of the ambience of
Lolita and some actual incidents come almost directly from Victor
X. This book also describes aspects of Russian social and cultural
life almost unreported anywhere else. For this book, Professor
Donald Rayfield has written an extensive, scholarly and fascinating
commentary
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