Vladimir Nabokov. Solus Rex
Vladimir Nabokov. SOLUS REX
The case started by that truly heroic female's suing Dr. Onze for allegedly luring her to his secret ga,r$onniere, "a den of luxury and lib ertinism." A similar claim (the only difference being that the apart ment surreptitiously taken and fitted by the conspirators was not the one which the prince used to rent at one time for special pleasures but faced it on the opposite side of the street—which immediately estab lished the mirror-image idea characteristic of the entire trial) had been filed against Fig by a not overbright maiden, who did not happen to know that her seducer was the heir to the throne, i.e., a person who in no circumsta