Subject:
'TOoL' may be by far the greatest of novels in fragments ...
From:
"Sandy P. Klein" <spklein52@hotmail.com>
Date:
Sun, 7 Feb 2010 14:07:02 -0500
To:
Sandy Klein--hotmail <spklein52@hotmail.com>

 
The New Criterion
 
 http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Gratuitous-excogitations-4395 
 

February 2010

Gratuitous excogitations

by John Simon

 

A review of The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov,Dmitri Nabokov

So now we have Vladimir Nabokov’s posthumous opus, The Original of Laura, with two subtitles, “(Dying Is Fun)” and “A novel in fragments,” neither chosen by the author.[1] It is the book Nabokov was working on, some of it in the hospital, during his last time on earth. As was his habit, he wrote on 3 x 5 inch index cards, reaching 138, and corresponding to, as has been estimated, forty-five pages of print. Otherwise put, nowhere near a finished novel.

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