Posted On: April 28, 2008
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:
