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Shades of Laura : Vladimir Nabokov's last novel the Original of Laura / edited by Yuri Leving ; contributors Paul Ardoin [and eighteen others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leving, Yuri, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977--Criticism and interpretation.
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Understanding Nabokov's oeuvre through a detailed look at the posthumous publication of his unrealized novel.
- Contents:
- Nabokov's "swan song" / Yuri Leving
- Chronology of the novel in fragments : composition, publication, reception / Brian Boyd and Yuri Leving
- Publishing Laura / Galya Diment, Leland de la Durantaye, Michael Juliar, Eric Naiman, and Olga Voronina
- Vanishing fragments / Michael Wood
- Terminating the phrase / Gennady Barabtarlo
- Worlds apart : Lolita, Laura, and the shadows of difference / Ellen Pifer
- Nabokov's last smile / Lara Delage-Toriel
- The original of Laura and Nietzsche : a Zarathustran tool? / Michael Rodgers
- Looking for Flora : deviance and disclosure in Nabokov's The original of Laura / Barbara Wyllie
- Reading the posthumous postmodern : Laura's productive fragments / Paul Ardoin
- The problem with Nabokov / Martin Amis
- Trump cards / John Banville
- In the cards, a last hand / Alexander Theroux
- A generous gift to readers / Heller McAlpin
- The Nabokov mess / Nathaniel Rich
- Vladimir Nabokov, reduced to notes / Michael Dirda
- An earnest proposal to Dmitri Nabokov / Amelia Glaser
- Genius erased / Michael Antman
- A curiosity for Nabokov's fans / James Marcus
- Deaths of the authors / Thomas Karshan
- The critics' Laura / Marijeta Bozovic
- Translating Laura / Gennady Barabtarlo, Maurice Couturier, Anna Raffetto, Rien Verhoef, and Tadashi Wakashima
- The last word, or not? : On some cards named Laura / Brian Boyd.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 9, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9780773589681
- 0773589686
- 9780773589674
- 0773589678
- OCLC:
- 855947020
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