The Original of Laura

When Vladimir Nabokov died in Switzerland in 1977, he left explicit instructions for his heirs to destroy the penciled index cards that made up his work to date on his unfinished 18th novel, The Original of Laura (Dying is Fun). Véra, his loyal wife and amanuensis, who died in 1991, ...

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Original article from http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/11/18/the-original-of-laura/