FROM THE EDITOR:
 
    BE ADVISED THAT THE VOLUMINOUS TRAFFIC ON NABOKV-L RE THE ALLEDGED PROTO-LOLITA DOES NOT NECESSARILY IMPLY EDITORIAL ENDORSEMENT. 
 
    GERMAN (AS WELL AS FRENCH) LITERATURE FROM THE TEENS INTO THE EARLY THIRTIES WAS AWASH IN SIBLING INCEST STORIES. (I PROVIDE A BRIEF SURVEY IN ONE OF THE ADA CHAPTERS OF MY _WORLDS IN REGRESSION_. ONE,  VN HIMSELF COMPLAINS OF THE PHENOMENON IN HIS 1931 STORY "THE REUNION" (VSTRECHA).