Maar has speculated that Nabokov could have had cryptomnesia ("concealed memory") whilst he was composing Lolita throughout the fifties. Maar claims that right until 1937 Nabokov lived in the same area of Berlin as the creator, Heinz von Eschwege (pen name: Heinz von Lichberg), and was most likely acquainted with his operate, which was commonly available in Germany in the course of Nabokov's time there.