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Дмитрий Набоков мерзкая жаба
Feb. 9th, 2007 04:15 pmNabokov’s Son to Destroy Writer’s Last Novel Unread
http://mosnews.com/news/2005/11/24/nabokovnovel.shtml
The last, unpublished novel of Vladimir Nabokov, the author of Lolita, is to be destroyed without scholars or the public having a chance to read it, the writer’s son told The Times.
Dmitri Nabokov once said that the unfinished book, The Original of Laura, “would have been Father’s most brilliant novel, the most concentrated distillation of his creativity”.
But the celebrated Russian emigrant left instructions that the manuscript be destroyed on his death in 1977. His wife, Vera, could not bring herself to fulfill her husband’s wish and bequeathed the decision to their son when she died in 1991.
Dmitri Nabokov, 71, an opera singer, had considered placing the manuscript in the trust of a university, museum or foundation to allow limited access for scholars. But in an e-mail to Ron Rosenbaum, a literary columnist for the New York Observer, he now says he plans to destroy the book before his death.
http://mosnews.com/news/2005/11/24/nabokovnovel.shtml
The last, unpublished novel of Vladimir Nabokov, the author of Lolita, is to be destroyed without scholars or the public having a chance to read it, the writer’s son told The Times.
Dmitri Nabokov once said that the unfinished book, The Original of Laura, “would have been Father’s most brilliant novel, the most concentrated distillation of his creativity”.
But the celebrated Russian emigrant left instructions that the manuscript be destroyed on his death in 1977. His wife, Vera, could not bring herself to fulfill her husband’s wish and bequeathed the decision to their son when she died in 1991.
Dmitri Nabokov, 71, an opera singer, had considered placing the manuscript in the trust of a university, museum or foundation to allow limited access for scholars. But in an e-mail to Ron Rosenbaum, a literary columnist for the New York Observer, he now says he plans to destroy the book before his death.
