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Save the Salinger Archives!
Even if we have to save them from Salinger himself.
By Ron Rosenbaum
Posted Friday, June 5, 2009, at 6:01 PM ET
"Here's where the similarities to the recent contretemps over Vladimir
Nabokov's last unfinished manuscript, *The Original of
Laura*<http://www.slate.com/id/2190065/>,
occurred to me. (Refresher course: *Laura* was a draft of a novel that
existed only as 138 handwritten index cards—Nabokov's method of initial
composition. Before his death, he asked that they be burned. His wife failed
to do so, and the decision has come down to his son Dmitri, who, after much
agonizing, decided that his father would now want him to contravene his
wishes and cash in by permitting publication. The draft is scheduled to be
published<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307271897?ie=UTF8&tag=slatmaga-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0307271897>,
with much fanfare, this fall.)"
"The similarities between the Salinger and Nabokov cases have to do with the
disposition of the final works of two of the most distinctive writers of our
time. Conflicting accounts have emerged of what Salinger's been doing in the
years since the 1965 publication of his last story in *The New Yorker*,
"Hapworth 16, 1924." Since then, he's been* *holed up in a hilltop house in
New Hampshire, and I've heard unofficial reports that he's produced several
novels whose manuscripts—like *Laura*'s*—*have been stashed in a bank's
safe-deposit vault. Or that there are manuscript pages stacked to the
ceiling in his house but no certainty about their state of completion."
The above quoted from the article at the link at the top of this page.
Barrie Karp
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:47 PM, NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@holycross.edu> wrote:
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Save the Salinger Archives!
Even if we have to save them from Salinger himself.
By Ron Rosenbaum
Posted Friday, June 5, 2009, at 6:01 PM ET
"Here's where the similarities to the recent contretemps over Vladimir
Nabokov's last unfinished manuscript, *The Original of
Laura*<http://www.slate.com/id/2190065/>,
occurred to me. (Refresher course: *Laura* was a draft of a novel that
existed only as 138 handwritten index cards—Nabokov's method of initial
composition. Before his death, he asked that they be burned. His wife failed
to do so, and the decision has come down to his son Dmitri, who, after much
agonizing, decided that his father would now want him to contravene his
wishes and cash in by permitting publication. The draft is scheduled to be
published<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307271897?ie=UTF8&tag=slatmaga-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0307271897>,
with much fanfare, this fall.)"
"The similarities between the Salinger and Nabokov cases have to do with the
disposition of the final works of two of the most distinctive writers of our
time. Conflicting accounts have emerged of what Salinger's been doing in the
years since the 1965 publication of his last story in *The New Yorker*,
"Hapworth 16, 1924." Since then, he's been* *holed up in a hilltop house in
New Hampshire, and I've heard unofficial reports that he's produced several
novels whose manuscripts—like *Laura*'s*—*have been stashed in a bank's
safe-deposit vault. Or that there are manuscript pages stacked to the
ceiling in his house but no certainty about their state of completion."
The above quoted from the article at the link at the top of this page.
Barrie Karp
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:47 PM, NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@holycross.edu> wrote:
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
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