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graphically performs in âchapterâ 5, by contriving an amusing hybrid, âFlauraâ. On close observation of the manuscript, one notices that the name contains in fact two capital letters, âFâ and âLâ, as though
Nabokov had been loath to give precedence to either name and had instead opted for some typographical monster, a bicephalous cipher of sorts.
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called Flora. Flora initially appealed to Wild because of another woman that heâd been in love with, Aurora Lee. Death and what lies beyond it, a theme which fascinated
Nabokov from a very young age, are central. The book opens at a party and there follow four continuous scenes, after which the novel
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posed the question: "the demands of the literary world versus the posthumous rights of an author over his art." The younger
Nabokov remarked cryptically that one other person possessed a key to the manuscript, but did not say who that person was. Like Nabokov, many observers were on the fence about
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from a painter. The narrator realizes that the novel is in fact about his own wife Flora, whom the painter had once pursued. In this novel within the novel, Laura is "destroyed" by the narrator (the "I" of the book). Delage-Toriel also notes that the names of Laura and Flora, possibly refer to
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Does it refer to the mistress of the âI,â the Laura of My Laura, or to the probable mistress of this novelâs author, the Flora of The
Original of Laura? The manuscriptâs playful juxtapositions obviously incite the reader to fuse both âoriginalsâ into a single original, a gesture which Nabokov
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employee and editor of the
Nabokov website Zembla, posted an essay on his site entitled "The Original of Laura: A First Look at Nabokov's Last Novel". The essay, supposedly written by a Swiss scholar named Michel Desommelier, included concocted passages from
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becomes more fragmented. It is not clear how old Wild is, but he is preoccupied with his own death and sets about obliterating himself from the toes upwards through meditation, a sort of deliberate self-inflicted self-erasure.
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asks, "Is it, as the blurb claims, Nabokov's 'final great book'? No. Does it contain brilliant, funny, astonishing sentences only
Nabokov could have written? Yes. Should it have been preserved and published? Definitely."
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Suellen Stringer-Hye, Nabokov stated that he had never seriously considered burning the manuscript. Once Dmitri decided to publish the manuscript, "several short excerpts were published in advance in the
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to their students someday, but it is really better suited to a college ethics class." He was not the only reviewer to suggest that the fragments should not have been published or should not be read.
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more of a gift book for Nabokov fans interested in his editorial process than a serious piece of literature".
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in its center" and "a puzzle with too many missing pieces".
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1990:Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
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988:Rosenbaum, Ron (February 27, 2008).
585:List of works published posthumously
1983:Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories
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1160:Hamilton, Ted (November 17, 2009).
1070:"Ersatz Nabokov fools the big boys"
606:Messana, Paola (November 6, 2009).
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1932:Spring in Fialta and other stories
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1646:The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
670:Theroux, Alexander (2009-11-13).
1681:Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
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1392:Lodge, David (December 2009).
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85:November 17, 2009 (announced)
1459:A Literary Legend Resurfaces
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672:"In the Cards, A Last Hand"
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1600:Laughter in the Dark
612:Agence France-Presse
2112:VĂ©ra Nabokov (wife)
2026:The Waltz Invention
1968:Cloud, Castle, Lake
1960:Nabokov's Congeries
1766:The Return of Chorb
1752:Details of a Sunset
1457:Albina Kovalyova, "
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618:on January 24, 2013
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1745:A Matter of Chance
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1191:Bookmarks Magazine
1082:on October 7, 1999
1057:on April 15, 2013.
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842:November 10, 2009.
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