The Original of Laura

...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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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...

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...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...

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...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...

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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...

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...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.

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...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...

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...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. "...

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