MetaFilter posts tagged with vladimirnabokov

Nabokov's unfinished final novel to be published

Houyhnhnm — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:16:13 -0800

The wait is over! Random House will publish Vladimir Nabokov's unfinished novel, The Original of Laura: (Dying Is Fun), on November 3, 2009, with "removable facsimiles of the index cards" on which the novel was written. As previously discussed on MetaFilter, Dmitri Nabokov's decision to publish the unfinished novel against his father's wishes has been controversial, but the BBC has already called it the "literary event of 2009".

UK retailer website betrays the little children / ignorance

NinjaTadpole — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:00:37 -0800

Buying a new bed for your daughter?. How about this little number, with a cheeky, precocious, contemporary culture-aware name. And pull-out desk, did I mention the built-in cupboard?
Mothers aren't concerned about the pull-out desk; they're concerned about the young girls' bed being called "Lolita". A spokesman for the company, Woolworths, told the Times "What seems to have happened is the staff who run the website had never heard of Lolita, and to be honest no one else here had either. We had to look it up on Wikipedia. But we certainly know who she is now." The item has now been removed from the Woolworths site, the fate of the spokesman is undisclosed.

lepidopterist considers literature

vronsky — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:02:44 -0800

Christopher Plummer as Nabokov lecturing on Kafka