{"id":661,"date":"2009-07-31T11:02:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T18:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickyopaterny.com\/blog\/?p=661"},"modified":"2009-07-31T11:02:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T18:02:03","slug":"pw-reviews-nabokovs-the-original-of-laura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/31\/pw-reviews-nabokovs-the-original-of-laura\/","title":{"rendered":"PW reviews Nabokov&#8217;s The Original of Laura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Publisher&#8217;s Weekly has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickyopaterny.comshorturl\/vnol\/\" target=\"_blank\">the first review<\/a> of Valdimir Nabokov&#8217;s last book, <em>The Original of Laura.<\/em> The magazine calls the book a &#8220;very unfinished work [that] reads largely like an outline.&#8221; What&#8217;s most interesting and exciting is how the book will look:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Knopf is publishing the book in an intriguing form: Nabokov\u2019s handwritten index cards are reproduced with a transcription below of each card\u2019s contents, generally less than a paragraph. The scanned index cards (perforated so they can be removed from the book) are what make this book an amazing document; they reveal Nabokov\u2019s neat handwriting (a mix of cursive and print) and his own edits to the text: some lines are blacked out with scribbles, others simply crossed out. Words are inserted, typesetting notes (\u201cno quotes\u201d) and copyedit symbols pepper the writing, and the reverse of many cards bears a wobbly X. Depending on the reader\u2019s eye, the final card in the book is either haunting or the great writer\u2019s final sly wink: it\u2019s a list of synonyms for \u201cefface\u201d\u2014expunge, erase, delete, rub out, wipe out and, finally, obliterate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publisher&#8217;s Weekly has the first review of Valdimir Nabokov&#8217;s last book, The Original of Laura. The magazine calls the book a &#8220;very unfinished work [that] reads largely like an outline.&#8221; What&#8217;s most interesting and exciting is how the book will look: Knopf is publishing the book in an intriguing form: Nabokov\u2019s handwritten index cards are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[72,75,70,74,73,71],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}