The unfinished Nabokov work cometh

[cloverest]

Mental Floss presents 5 Things You Didn't Know about Vladimir Nabokov. I am mostly excited about the last item. A "new" Nabokov book will be released in November! Well, ok, his well-known, death-interrupted last manuscript will be released in November. Still!

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[colinzeal]

I read a review that said it was badly, badly unfinished. Like, it's actually scans of the index cards.

[cloverest]

I think a lot of Nabokovphiles and scholars will be happy with scans of index cards. I know I'll be curious just to see it. I understand Dmitri's grappling with the decision for 30 years over whether or not to destroy his dad's last unfinished work, though; VN would probably be considerably put out if he had any awareness of this situation, yet the collection presents insight into the writing process of one of the masters of 20th century literature.