The Original of Laura: (Dying Is Fun) A Novel in Fragments - Brossura

Nabokov, Vladimir

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ISBN 10: 0141191163 ISBN 13: 9780141191164

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2012

Riassunto

The Original of Laura is Vladimir Nabokov's final, incredible unfinished novel in fragments. Dr Philip Wild, a man of brilliance, wit, fortune and tremendous bulk, is used to suffering humiliations at the hands of his wife, the younger, slender, and rudely promiscuous Flora. But in a novel, a 'maddening masterpiece' documenting her infidelities, written by one of her lovers and given to the doctor, she appears as My Laura. Dishonoured, Wild still finds pleasure in life, by indulging in self-annihilation, beginning with the removal of his toes.

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L'autore:

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0141191163
• ISBN 13: 9780141191164
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304