Maar has speculated that Nabokov may have experienced cryptomnesia ("hidden memory") while he was composing Lolita all through the 1950s. Maar says that until finally 1937 Nabokov lived in the identical area of Berlin as the author, Heinz von Eschwege (pen name: Heinz von Lichberg), and was most likely common with his do the job, which was extensively accessible in Germany throughout Nabokov's time there.