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

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

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Other Authors: Leving, I︠U︡riĭ (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal [Quebec] ; Kingston [Ontario] ; London [England] ; Ithaca [New York] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]
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Table of 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.