The Original of Laura
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Holiday gift guide: fiction...poetry. Inherent Vice, by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press; 369 pages; $27.95). Pynchon's most accessible (and amusing) work in years. The Original of Laura, by Vladimir Nabokov (Alfred A. Knopf; 278 pages; $35). A treat for Nabokov... In this article: Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, The Original of Laura, McSweeney's, Simon and Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, and Dave Eggers |
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Kansas City Star | 1 day ago
Nabokov's ‘The Original of Laura' is for fans only
...Nabokov (304 pages; Knopf; $35)</p><p></div> Posted on Sat, Nov. 28, 2009 10:15 PM Nabokov's 'The Original of Laura' is for fans only "The Original of Laura" isn't for everyone. If you are looking for a traditional literary novel...
In this article: Vladimir Nabokov and Trademark
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | 3 days ago
Novels of the year
...of its perpetrators. The final flourish of excitement this year was with the publication of Vladimir Nabokov's ultimately disappointing The Original of Laura: a Novel in Fragments (Penguin, GBP25), the unfinished last offering from the great...
In this article: Chatto & Windus, J. M. Coetzee, Virago, Thomas Pynchon, Roberto Bolano, and A S Byatt
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scotsman.com - Entertainment | 6 days ago
Book review: The Original of Laura
...shade," would not "have opposed the release of Laura once Laura had survived the hum of time this long". Was Dmitri right to publish The Original of Laura: (Dying Is Fun)? Do the index cards (reproduced in an ingenious punch-out...
In this article: Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Rumination, Charles Kinbote, and Pale Fire
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TIME | 7 days ago
Piecing Together Nabokov's Last Novel
Nabokov spent his last years in a grand hotel in Montreux, Switzerland--after Lolita he could afford it--working on a novel called The Original of Laura. But he died before he could finish it, leaving behind a box of 138 index cards that...
In this article: Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov, Lolita, Oldsmobile, and Montreux, Switzerland
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PopMatters | November 19, 2009
The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov (Review)
...was in fact a big bestseller in its time), or it may have been his forecast, probably more accurate, for The Original of Laura. The Original of Laura is published in an unusual form. The top portion of each page contains a scored...
In this article: Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Dmitri Nabokov, Suicide, and Rum
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Independent.co.uk - Books | November 19, 2009
Boyd Tonkin: How to ruin a great writer's good name
...Lolita on his death in 1977. Now, with a fanfare and palaver that would not disgrace a second coming, Penguin Classics has issued The Original of Laura (GBP25) in a luxury hardback design by Chip Kidd. The edition even offers - vanity of...
In this article: Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Kingsley Amis, Penguin, and Moniza Alvi
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | November 19, 2009
The Original of Laura: a Novel in Fragments by Vladimir Nabokov: review
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst finds that more than three decades after The Original of Laura was laid to rest, Vladimir Nabokov's final work still tricks and teases The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov Tennyson's greatest fear towards...
In this article: Vladimir Nabokov, Debbie McGee, Suicide, Trademark, and Self-consciousness
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washingtonpost.com | November 18, 2009
Book World: Michael Dirda reviews Vladimir Nabokov's 'Original of Laura'
...was clearly right to ignore his dying father's request that he destroy these fragments of an unfinished novel. But that doesn't mean "The Original of Laura" actually deserves the attention of anyone but the most rabid Nabokov fanatic.
In this article: Dmitri Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Charles Kinbote, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and Pale Fire
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BBC News | November 16, 2009
Last word
...Dmitri, has sparked controversy by agreeing to have his father's unfinished last novel The Original of Laura published. In his foreword to the novel Dmitri writes that "Nabokov did not desire to burn the book". He makes an analogy with...
In this article: Vladimir Nabokov, Max Brod, Sunday Times, Playboy Magazine, Brian Boyd, and Aleksander Hemon
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L.A. Times - Jacket Copy | November 13, 2009
The reviews pour in for Nabokov's 'The Original of Laura'
...our own, think the work makes for an interesting artifact, Hemon disagrees. "It is safe to say that what is published as the novel titled 'The Original of Laura (Dying Is Fun)' is not a result Nabokov desired or would welcome," he writes. "...
In this article: Vladimir Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov, Los Angeles Times, N.Y. Times, and Lolita
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The Original of Laura is a novel that Vladimir Nabokov was writing at the time of his death in 1977. It has never been published and its contents have been viewed only by Nabokov's son, wife, and a few scholars. Nabokov had requested that upon his death the work be destroyed. His family debated for over 30 years whether to carry out this wish to destroy an incomplete but perhaps important literary work. In April 2008, Nabokov's son Dmitri Nabokov announced plans to publish the work.
- Name:
- The Original of Laura
- Written By:
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Published By:
- Unpublished
- Language:
- English
- Published Date:
- Unfinished at time of Nabokov's death
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