The Original Laura

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas (Barcelona, 1939) es profesor investigador de Literatura Española y Latinoamericana de la Universidad de Westmins ter de Londres, ciudad en la que reside desde hace más de treinta años. Además de su recono cida faceta de crítico literario en España y Améri ca Latina, ha traducido, entre otros, a Cesare Pa vese, Djuna Barnes, Carson McCullers y Robert Coover, es autor de la antología de cuentos espa ñoles contemporáneos x{0026}lt;em The Origins of Desirex{0026}lt;/em (Londres, 1993) y de las colecciones de poemas x{0026}lt;em El jardín aciagox{0026}lt;/em (Premio Carlos Ortiz, Barcelona, 1985), x{0026}lt;em La casa de la malezax{0026}lt;/em (Barcelona, 1992), x{0026}lt;em En el bosque de Celiax{0026}lt;/em (Altea, 1995; México, 1998), y x{0026}lt;em Los espejos del marx{0026}lt;/em (Tenerife, 1998).x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p Foto Alina López Cámarax{0026}lt;/p