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The Original of Laura is Vladimir Nabokovs 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 doctor she appears as My Laura Dishonoured Wild still finds pleasure in life by indulging in selfannihilation beginning with the removal of his toes Vladimir Nabokov 18991977 was born in St Petersburg He wrote his first literary works in Russian but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English most famously Lolita Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels short stories plays poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian migr writers Dmitri Nabokov was Vladimir Nabokovs son
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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. Dmitri Nabokov, now seventy-five--the Russian novelist’s only surviving heir, and translator of many of his books--has wrestled for three decades with the decision of whether to honor his father’s wish or preserve for posterity the last piece of writing of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His decision finally to allow publication of the fragmented narrative--dark yet playful, preoccupied with mortality--affords us one last experience of Nabokov’s magnificent creativity, the quintessence of his unparalleled body of work.
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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. Dmitri Nabokov, now seventy-five--the Russian novelist’s only surviving heir, and translator of many of his books--has wrestled for three decades with the decision of whether to honor his father’s wish or preserve for posterity the last piece of writing of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His decision finally to allow publication of the fragmented narrative--dark yet playful, preoccupied with mortality--affords us one last experience of Nabokov’s magnificent creativity, the quintessence of his unparalleled body of work.
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Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899, in St. Petersburg, Russia. His acclaimed works of fiction include Lolita, Pnin, and Pale Fire, among others. He died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.
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