Question 1: "The inside story of Nabokov's last work" by Alexis Kirschbaum, in ________ 17 November 2009 | |||
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Question 2: However, a reviewer in ________ was glad to have the book; he enjoyed reading it and enjoyed the opportunity to see Nabokov's work "rough". | |||
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Question 3: Jeff Edmunds, a ________ employee and editor of the Nabokov website Zembla, posted an essay on his site entitled "The Original of Laura: A First Look at Nabokov's Last Novel". | |||
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Question 4: Based on discussions with unidentified scholars, ________ summarizes the plot as follows:[7] | |||
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Question 5: [9] In April 2008 Nabokov told many publications, including Nabokov Online Journal and ________, that he intended to publish the manuscript after all. | |||
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Question 6: [7] Nabokov weighed in on Nikolai Gogol's decision to burn the sequels to ________. | |||
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Question 7: John Banville called the published volume, designed by ________, "a triumph of the book maker's art". | |||
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Question 8: The Original of Laura is the incomplete final novel by ________, which he was writing at the time of his death in 1977. | |||
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Question 9: [9][10] The use of index cards was normal for Nabokov, the basis of many of his works, such as ________ and Pale Fire. | |||
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Question 10: The author Edmund White has compared the author's last request to Virgil's request to destroy the ________ (ignored by Augustus Caesar) or Franz Kafka's request to destroy his papers (ignored by Max Brod). | |||
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