Vladimir Nabokov’s last novel will never be read! .:. NewKerala - India’s Top Online Newspaper

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Vladimir Nabokov’s last novel will never be read! .:. NewKerala - India’s Top Online Newspaper:

Washington : Normally, an author writes a book and then finds a publisher to publish it, but renowned Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov had expressed wish that his last novel, ‘The Original Of Laura’, be destoryed on his death in 1977.

To fulfill Nabokov’s last wish, the unpublished novel, which is said to be about “a real Laura and a non-real Laura”, is now set to be consigned to flames, without scholars or members of the public getting a chance to read it.

The writer had asked his wife Vera to destory the manuscript for the novel, but she couldn’t bring herself to carry out his wishes and left the decision to their son Dmitri when she died in 1991. After Dmitri considered placing the manuscript in the trust of an establishment, which would allow limited access for scholars, he wrote an email to New York Observer columnist Ron Rosenbaum telling of his plans to destroy the book before his own death.

“If what he says in his email holds true, it’s for the flames,” Contactmusic quoted Rosenbaum as saying.

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