The Original of Laura

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The Original of Laura is a novel that Vladimir Nabokov was writing at the time of his death. His son, Dmitri Nabokov, decided to withhold the unfinished manuscript from publication. According to Dmitri, the novel was roughly half finished at Nabokov's death on July 2, 1977 and Dmitri's father ordered the manuscripts destroyed, not wanting to leave the unfinished work behind. Yet neither Véra, his wife, nor Dmitri, his son, destroyed the manuscript. It exists with limited access in an undisclosed location.

In an e-mail to Ron Rosenbaum, a literary columnist for the New York Observer, Dmitri Nabokov said he plans to destroy the book before his death [1] [2].

[edit] References

• Craig Offman (1999). Salon Books Article. Retrieved Jan. 29, 2005
• Vladimir Nabokov, A Bibliography of Criticism, by Dieter E. Zimmer with additions by Jeff Edmunds [3]