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To Dmitri Vladimirovich, re Laura
Sri Dmitri Vladimirovich, by all means, consign Laura to the funeral pyre, but not before transferring the text your father left on index cards to your own sacred database. Publish a generous, Lauric précis, fruit to baying wolves, on which world-wide competition for an operatic libretto may be based. Promise prize money to be split ...
Posted to The Spectator by gudhavasati on January 21, 2008
A vote not to burn
Here is my reasoning: Vladimir Nabokov left the index cards in trust of his son Dimitri's wisdom, had he not had faith in his son's ability to do justice to his father's words, his father would not have left them behind. The point of not publishing the manuscript ''as is'' in his father's name is clear and makes perfect sense; I would not want to ...
Posted to The Spectator by ankels on January 18, 2008