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22 de nov. de 2009 · In order to reflect The Original of Laura's embryonic nature, the publishers have reproduced all 138 written-on cards, setting each in its own right-hand page, with the text running in type below.
The Original of Laura is Vladimir Nabokov's final, incredible unfinished novel in fragments. Dr Philip Wild, a man of brilliance, wit, fortune and tremendous bulk, is used to suffering humiliations at the hands of his wife, the younger, slender, and rudely promiscuous Flora. But in a novel, a 'maddening masterpiece' documenting her infidelities, written by one of her lovers and given to the ...
25 de nov. de 2017 · The story appears to be about a woman named Flora (spelled, once, as Flaura), who has Lolita-like moments in her childhood and is later the subject of a scandalous novel, Laura, written by a former lover. Mostly, this amounts to a peek inside the author's process and mindset as he neared death. Indeed, mortality, suicide, impotence, a disgust ...
Other articles where The Original of Laura is discussed: Vladimir Nabokov: The Original of Laura: …to become his final novel, The Original of Laura. On his deathbed, he instructed his wife, Véra, to burn the unfinished work. She instead placed it in a Swiss bank vault, where it remained the object of much speculation for three decades. With Véra’s death in 1991, responsibility for the…
31 de ene. de 2010 · The Original of Laura, or, Dying is Fun. By Vladimir NabokovKnopf, 2009The dedication to The Original of Laura, or, Dying is Fun, is in Dmitri Nabokov's hand: To all the worldwide contributors of opinion, comment, and advice, of whatever its stripe, who imagined that their views, sometimes deftly expressed, might somehow change mine.
17 de nov. de 2009 · 内容简介 · · · · · ·. When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But Nabokov’s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband’s last work, and when she died, the fate of the ...
Original of Laura, meta-novela, intertextualidad, estilo. “All this task of putting The Original of Laura to the torch has illuminated some dark corner of Nabokovia.” (Delage-Toriel 2009:8) Perhaps no novel has ever produced so much interest and impatience as The Original of Laura, “the most eagerly awaited literary novel of this fledgling
