The Original of Laura (Dying Is Fun)

Vladimir Nabokov; Dmitri Nabokov (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0141191155 / ISBN 13: 9780141191157

Published by Penguin Classics, London, 2009

About this Item

1st printing (2009). 278pp. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE copy, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

Seller Inventory # 025272

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Original of Laura (Dying Is Fun)
• Publisher: Penguin Classics, London
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141191155
• ISBN 13: 9780141191157
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

This legendary novel has been the source of much anxiety and contention for Nabokov's fans and family. The late Vladimir Nabokov requested that this unfinished work be destroyed, but his son, Dmitri, did not oblige, although neither did he allow the work to be published until now. The Original of Laura is about a wonderfully large man called Philip Wild, married to a very promiscuous woman, and whose meditations concern the nature of death. The novel was complete in Nabokov's mind, though he died before he could translate his vision on to paper. It is hard, however, to imagine any scholars, Nabokov enthusiasts or literature lovers being disappointed by even these fragments.

About the Author

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) was born in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most famously Lolita. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian émigré writers. Dmitri Nabokov is Vladimir Nabokov’s son.