| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 307 pages) : 1 illustration |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Nabokov's "swan song" / Yuri Leving -- Chronology of the novel in fragments : composition, publication, reception / Brian Boyd and Yuri Leving -- Publishing Laura / Galya Diment, Leland de la Durantaye, Michael Juliar, Eric Naiman, and Olga Voronina -- Vanishing fragments / Michael Wood -- Terminating the phrase / Gennady Barabtarlo -- Worlds apart : Lolita, Laura, and the shadows of difference / Ellen Pifer -- Nabokov's last smile / Lara Delage-Toriel -- The original of Laura and Nietzsche : a Zarathustran tool? / Michael Rodgers -- Looking for Flora : deviance and disclosure in Nabokov's The original of Laura / Barbara Wyllie -- Reading the posthumous postmodern : Laura's productive fragments / Paul Ardoin -- The problem with Nabokov / Martin Amis -- Trump cards / John Banville -- In the cards, a last hand / Alexander Theroux -- A generous gift to readers / Heller McAlpin -- The Nabokov mess / Nathaniel Rich -- Vladimir Nabokov, reduced to notes / Michael Dirda -- An earnest proposal to Dmitri Nabokov / Amelia Glaser -- Genius erased / Michael Antman -- A curiosity for Nabokov's fans / James Marcus -- Deaths of the authors / Thomas Karshan -- The critics' Laura / Marijeta Bozovic -- Translating Laura / Gennady Barabtarlo, Maurice Couturier, Anna Raffetto, Rien Verhoef, and Tadashi Wakashima -- The last word, or not? : On some cards named Laura / Brian Boyd. |
| Summary |
Understanding Nabokov's oeuvre through a detailed look at the posthumous publication of his unrealized novel. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Original of Laura.
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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Leving, I͡Uriĭ, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Shades of Laura. (CaOONL)20139043241 |
| ISBN |
9780773589674 (electronic book) |
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0773589678 (electronic book) |
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9780773589681 (epub) |
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0773589686 (epub) |
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9780773542631 |
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0773542639 |
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9780773542648 |
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0773542647 |
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