Posted On: April 28, 2008 by Joel A. Schoenmeyer

Nabokov's Laura and the Disobedient Executor

I've talked before -- most recently, here -- about executors who don't obey the wishes of decedents, and refuse to burn their works. Vladimir Nabokov's case (which involves this scenario) has been in the news lately, in a two-part series in Slate entitled The Fate of Nabokov's Laura:

Part 1

Part 2

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