Howard Nemerov, "The Loon's Cry"

"... For signatures
In all things are, which leave us not alone
Even in the thought of death, and may by arts
Contemplative be found and named again."

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Nabokov's "The Original of Laura" to be published

The final work of Nabokov (The Original of Laura) that was left unfinished at his death will be published by his son Dmitri, who also has served as the translator of his father's English work into Russian. Nabokov is perhaps the most misunderstood writer/philosopher of the modern work. More and more scholars and good readers are discovering that Nabokov is a supreme moralist & his works should be read as masterpieces of high humanism that indicts us and our culture of the very things that we project onto him and charge him with... our indictment merely demonstrates that we have failed to grasp and seize the humanism or humanity of the unvoiced in his works - one thinks of Pale Fire, Lolita & Ada in this regard.

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