When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura But Nabokovапфыо’s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband’s last work, and when she died, the fate of the manuscript fell to her son Dmitri Nabokov, now seventy-five—the Russian novelist’s only surviving heir, and translator of many of his books—has wrestled for three decaббеывdes with the decision of whether to honor his father’s wish or preserve for posterity the last piece of writing of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century His decision finally to allow publication of the fragmented narrative—dark yet playful, preoccupied with mortality—affords us one last experience of Nabokov’s magnificent creativity, the quintessence of his unparalleled body of work Дата начала продаж - 17 ноября 2009 года Автор Владимир Набоков Владимир Владимибнкфурович Набоков родился 23 апреля 1899 года в столице Российской империи Санкт-Петербурге в знатной и богатой семье В насыщенном событиями 1917 году его отец недолгое время входил в число министров правительства Керенского, а когда к .