Shades of Laura : Vladimir Nabokov's last novel The original of Laura /

Shades of Laura : Vladimir Nabokov's last novel The original of Laura / edited by Yuri Leving. - [CEL version. - Montreal [Quebec] ; Kingston [Ontario] ; London [England] ; Ithaca [New York] : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2013. Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xii, 307 pages) : 1 illustration.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Nabokov's "swan song" / Chronology of the novel in fragments : composition, publication, reception / Publishing Laura / Vanishing fragments / Terminating the phrase / Worlds apart : Lolita, Laura, and the shadows of difference / Nabokov's last smile / The original of Laura and Nietzsche : a Zarathustran tool? / Looking for Flora : deviance and disclosure in Nabokov's The original of Laura / Reading the posthumous postmodern : Laura's productive fragments / The problem with Nabokov / Trump cards / In the cards, a last hand / A generous gift to readers / The Nabokov mess / Vladimir Nabokov, reduced to notes / An earnest proposal to Dmitri Nabokov / Genius erased / A curiosity for Nabokov's fans / Deaths of the authors / The critics' Laura / Translating Laura / The last word, or not? : On some cards named Laura / Yuri Leving -- Brian Boyd and Yuri Leving -- Galya Diment, Leland de la Durantaye, Michael Juliar, Eric Naiman, and Olga Voronina -- Michael Wood -- Gennady Barabtarlo -- Ellen Pifer -- Lara Delage-Toriel -- Michael Rodgers -- Barbara Wyllie -- Paul Ardoin -- Martin Amis -- John Banville -- Alexander Theroux -- Heller McAlpin -- Nathaniel Rich -- Michael Dirda -- Amelia Glaser -- Michael Antman -- James Marcus -- Thomas Karshan -- Marijeta Bozovic -- Gennady Barabtarlo, Maurice Couturier, Anna Raffetto, Rien Verhoef, and Tadashi Wakashima -- Brian Boyd.

Understanding Nabokov's oeuvre through a detailed look at the posthumous publication of his unrealized novel.



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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 --
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 --Criticism and interpretation.


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PS3527 / .S533 2013