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The Original of Laura

john baker, April 23rd, 2008. No comments. Filed under literature, quotations.

Guardian Unlimited reports on Vladimir Nabokov’s last work, the one he asked his son to destroy:

From his winter home in Palm Beach, Dmitri (Nabokov) justified his decision (to ignore his father’s will) by saying, “I’m a loyal son and thought long and seriously about it, then my father appeared before me and said, with an ironic grin, ‘You’re stuck in a right old mess – just go ahead and publish!’”

Sounds like a rather unlikely story to me. But there’s nothing wrong with fiction, is there?

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