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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.
The purpose of this paper is to set The Original of Laura into Nabokov's 'metanovel' and to weigh it on its own merits, considering features such as themes, images, characters and style that make his prose so outstanding or, simply, Nabokovian. The themes and images of the novel have been developed by Nabokov since the very beginning of his ...
23 de nov. de 2009 · The Original Of Laura By Vladimir Nabokov Penguin Classics £25 Knopf $35, 304 pages FT Bookshop price: £20. In my role as Nabokov’s biographer, I was the first person other than Nabokov, ...
8 de ene. de 2013 · "Nabokov's last metafictive parable. . . . One of the most interesting short stories Nabokov never wrote." — San Francisco Chronicle When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 hand-written 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 ...
17 de nov. de 2009 · The novel My Laura was begun soon after the end of the love affair it depicts. And, like this, was torn apart by every reviewer. The I of the book is a neurotic who set out to destroy his lover ...
8 de ene. de 2013 · "Nabokov's last metafictive parable. . . . One of the most interesting short stories Nabokov never wrote." —San Francisco ChronicleWhen Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 hand-written 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 ...
Book Description 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 manuscript fell to her son.
