Shades of Laura: Vladimir Nabokov's Last Novel, The Original of Laura

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Nabokov’s “Swan Song”
A PICTURE IN FRAGMENTS
	Chronology of the Novel in Fragments: Composition, Publication, Reception
	Publishing Laura
READING IS FUN: APPROACHES TO ANALYSIS
	Vanishing Fragments
	Terminating the Phrase
	Worlds Apart: Lolita, Laura, and the Shadows of Difference
	Nabokov’s Last Smile
	The Original of Laura and Nietzsche: A Zarathustran Tool?
	Looking for Flora: Deviance and Disclosure in Nabokov’s The Original of Laura
	Reading the Posthumous Postmodern: Laura’s Productive Fragments
CRITICAL RECEPTION
	The Problem with Nabokov
	Trump Cards
	In the Cards, a Last Hand
	A Generous Gift to Readers
	The Nabokov Mess
	Vladimir Nabokov, Reduced to Notes
	An Earnest Proposal to Dmitri Nabokov
	Genius Erased
	A Curiosity for Nabokov’s Fans
	Deaths of the Authors
	The Critics’ Laura
A TOOLBOX
	Translating Laura
AFTERWORD
	The Last Word – Or Not? On Some Cards Named Laura
Notes
Contributors
Index
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