Dmitri Nabokov turns to his dead father for advice on whether to burn the author's last, unpublished manuscript.
14 years ago
The latest chapter in the intrigue surrounding The Original of Laura, the elusive, unfinished, unpublished final work of Vladimir Nabokov—a chapter that has unfolded since I last wrote about Laura in Slate—turns out to be a kind of ghost story. It involves what might be called the spectral appearance of Nabokov himself to his son, Dmitri, the 73-year-old ...
