Comments on: Reader survey: Should Nabokov’s last book have been published?

By: Arnold

Arnold — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:17:19 +0000

Sorry, didn’t mean to criticize you, Justin, only those papers who simply regurgitated the “news” that “Laura” won’t be burned.

As for the burning issue: I’m glad Dmitri didn’t consign “Laura” to the funeral pire, as I think even in its fragmentary state it’s going to be fascinating to read.

Eventually, I don’t think Nabokov the Elder was more serious about having his books burnt than Kafka, Virgil & Co, and in those cases we’re lucky for their works to have survived perhaps even against their will…

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:07:54 +0000

It’s old news, of course, that the book will be published. What’s new as far as I know is that it will come out as soon as September ‘09. I just wanted to give you guys that update and allow people to opine.

By: Arnold

Arnold — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:22:03 +0000

This is old news. Dmitri Nabokov decided in April that he wouldn’t burn “Laura” but publish her, as reported widely in the Guardian, NYTimes etc.

The real news is the publication of four facsimiles from Nabokov’s manuscript in German weekly DIE ZEIT. No one’s seen a page from “Laura” before.
Unfortunately, only in German so far and only in the print edition. They also run an article by literary editor Malte Herwig who persuaded Dmitri to let him have the manuscript pages…

Can anyone here get hold of it and scan it perhaps?

the link: http://www.zeit.de/online/2008/33/nabokov-vorabmeldung

By: Arthur Paul

Arthur Paul — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:51:16 +0000

http://www.abc.es/20080814/cultura-literatura/nabokov-novela-postuma-vera-20080814.html

By: Arthur Paul

Arthur Paul — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:42:55 +0000

Do you have a link to the abc story? I can’t find it on their site. Thanks, Arthur