[AlbClub] I biri i Nabokovit ka ndermend t'ia djege manuskriptin te atit

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Pas Lolites, Nabokovi shkruante Lauren. Ngaqe kurre nuk arriti ta mbaronte novelen, testamenti i tij i fundit kerkonte qe manuskripti i Laures te digjej. 
I biri ia ngre mendjen botes literare here pas here me deklarata qe shenimet per kete novele e fundit shperfaqin nje koncentrim te tille kreativiteti qe i bejne ato vete nje thesar te vertete letrar. Pastaj thote qe do t'i bindet deshires se fundit te te atit dhe do djege gjithcka. 
Artikullin e keni me poshte. Eshte interesante per mua si histori ngaqe mpleksen bashke kapitulli i fundit ne biografine letrare te nje shkrimtari,? deshira per vemendje e te birit, tatimi i pulsit te shtepive botuese, dhe detyrimet morale per te cuar ne vend amanetin e fundit te nje te vdekuri.



Son hints he will burn Nabokov's last work

Kate Connolly in Berlin
Saturday January 19, 2008
The Guardian <http://www.guardian.co.uk/>? 

The last unpublished work of one of the 20th century's greatest writers
may be close to being destroyed in fulfilment of the author's last
wishes, his son has hinted. 

Vladimir Nabokov requested in his will that his unfinished novel, The
Original of Laura, should be destroyed on his death, saying that he
abhorred the idea of his readers seeing a work he had completed "in my
mind" but not on paper.

But more than 30 years since his death, nobody has dared to incinerate
the manuscript, a collection of 50 index cards that is languishing in a
Swiss bank vault. 

Dimitri Nabokov, his sole surviving heir, has carried the burden of what
to do with it since 1991 when his mother, Vera, died, having never been
able to bring herself to dispose of it. 

For years Nabokov, who is the only living person to have seen the entire
manuscript, has tantalised his father's fans with his descriptions of it
as a distillation of the writer's output and the most "brilliant,
original and potentially radical" script he ever wrote.

Now 73, the former opera singer, who has kept the literary world
guessing for years, has delivered the strongest indication yet that he
is prepared to put a match to the manuscript.

In an email and telephone exchange with the US literary critic Ron
Rosenbaum, Nabokov has stressed that he wants to spare it the harsh
treatment that his father's novel Lolita received at the hands of
critics.

Lolita, which is commonly viewed as one of the most controversial novels
in modern literature, tells the story - depending on your point of view
- of a pre-teenage temptress who destroys the life of a professor, or an
innocent child who falls victim to the lust of an ageing sex maniac.

According to Rosenbaum, who agreed not to quote Dimitri Nabokov
directly, he "admits to feeling protective about Laura", particularly
"in light of the treatment of his father's works by certain writers he
regards as deeply misguided in their 'psychological' analyses of Lolita
and other works, analyses he characterises as virtually criminal
idiocy".

Rosenbaum points to Dimitri Nabokov's particular concern about those he
refers to as the "Lolitologists", or the critics who have read into
Nabokov's works suggestions that the author himself was molested or
abused.

Writing on the US online magazine Slate, Rosenbaum says: "The desire to
spare Laura similar molestation by the Lolitologists inclines him to
obey his father's wishes and consign the manuscript to oblivion."

Nabokov fans are split on the issue, with some fearing they will never
set eyes on a manuscript - referred to by the writer's son as "the most
concentrated distillation of [my father's] creativity" - that could
throw fresh light on the writer.

They argue that if the author had really wanted it destroyed he would
have done it himself. They cite the examples of writers such as Kafka
and Virgil, arguing that the literary world is much richer for the fact
that their wishes for their works to be destroyed were ignored.

Others, though, say Nabokov's wishes should be respected.

Rosenbaum fronts a growing band of critics who want the son to bring an
end to the dilemma, appealing to him, "please don't continue to tease".

"Dimitri, with all due respect, I think the time has come to make a
decision," he wrote in Slate.

"Tell us why you think it's the distillation of (your) father's art ...
Or give us Laura ... Or put us out of our misery and tell us that you
intend to preserve the mystery forever by destroying Laura."

The Nabokov scholar Zoran Kuzmanovich, who was one of a chosen few to
hear the writer's son read an extract from Laura several years ago,
reported that it was "vintage Nabokov".

"It sounds as though the story is about ageing but holding on to the
original love of one's life," he said.




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