Nabokov's unfinished work is published

Vladimir Nabokov’s The Original of Laura unfinished novel is to be published in Great Britain and the US today. When the famous Russian writer died in 1977, he made it clear in his will that a manuscript he was working on should not be published, foreign media reported. In fact he instructed his wife Vera to burn the unfinished work. Vera didn't destroy the work or publish it. It was kept safely locked away in the vaults of a bank in Switzerland. Nothing had changed by the time she died in 1991. Now, more than 30 years after his death, Nabokov's son Dmitri has sparked controversy by agreeing to have his father's unfinished last novel The Original of Laura published. In his foreword to the novel Dmitri writes that "Nabokov did not desire to burn the book". In an interview, Dmitri says he found the decision agonising and as late as last year he was leaning towards burning The Original of Laura.