Лаура и ее оригинал

A global event! World premiere! At the end of November 2009, the world premiere of the last, still unpublished, novel "Laura and Her Original" by the famous Russian-American writer, one of the classics of literature of the twentieth century, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, will take place.
The Russian edition of the book will appear after the release of the American and English editions, which are scheduled for release on November 17, 2009.
The Azbuka-Klassika Publishing House has acquired exclusive rights to publish the novel in Russia. The publication is carried out within the framework of an agreement with the writer's son Dmitry Vladimirovich Nabokov, owner of The Estate of Vladimir Nabokov's international inheritance fund. , this is how the author ordered it to be disposed of shortly before his own death.
And now, more than 30 years after the death of Vladimir Nabokov, the writer's son Dmitry, after many years of reflection, decided to publish this, in his opinion, "brilliant, original and a potentially revolutionary" thing that represents his father's "most concentrated quintessence of creativity."
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The last work of Nabokov, namely 138 catalog cards written by the author's hand are just a sketch of the never finished novel, on which the writer worked in the last years of his life.
The contents of the manuscript are kept in the strictest confidence, however, fragments of "Laura and her original" were seen by Nabokov's biographer Brian Boyd, according to whose In the words, "it is a masterpiece of technical skill, just like the later works of Shakespeare, where he is very focused on pushing the boundaries of his personal method."