《魔法师》被纳博科夫视作《洛丽塔》的前篇，预示了《洛丽塔》“着魔的猎人”的主旨。在小说中，纳博科夫把“魔法师”设定为一个好色的中年男子，他向一位寡妇求爱，为的是要接近她的女儿。“《魔法师》的情节和《洛丽塔》有相似之处，但魔法师用魔法把欲望变成了童话般的梦，从而创造了和《洛丽塔》截然不同的结局。” ( Nabokov has treated Magician as the prequel of Lolita which indicating the gist of “the hunter of devil” in Lolita. In the novel, Nabokov set “magician” as a lusty middle-aged man, he courted to a widow to be close to her daughter. "There are similarities between the plot of Magician and Lolita, but the magician changed the desire to a fairy-tale dream with magic, thus created a completely different ending from Lolita. )