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Bondarchuk's “War and Peace”: Literary Classic to Soviet Cinematic Epic. By Denise J. Youngblood. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2014. xiv, 175 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. $29.95, hard bound.

Self-appointed custodians of Nabokov's literary legacy challenge Dmitri Nabokov's decision to "make some money on the damn thing" and in doing so lay bare their own anxieties about the commoditization of art. Bozovic also discerns deep anxieties about aging and the aged. Common sentiment dictates that the elderly, to spare their dignity, should be hidden from public view. Moreover, Bozovic notes, "one also cannot help but wonder if th[e] triumvirate of writers" whose reviews are included in the volume, Amis, Alexander Theroux, and John Banville—"not one under the age of 63—is exorcising the spectre of old age with fervent wishes that Vladimir Nabokov had known when to stop" (214). The roundtable "Translating Laura" emerges from translators' close readings of the manuscript itself. Tadashi Wakashima attempted a rearrangement of the manuscript cards in the order he received them from the publisher and found that two do not fit in the edition as it stands. Barabtarlo offers a reading that plausibly fills the manuscript's gaps, and Maurice Couturier discovers ambiguities in attributing a described sensation to one or another character. It is fascinating to learn that the translators— Wakashima, Barabtarlo, Couturier, Anna Raffetto, and Rien Verhoef—were consulted about the publication design of their respective editions. Boyd's afterword to the volume concludes with the revelation that twenty additional cards belonging to The Original of Laura have been discovered. Like its translations, interpretations, and paratexts, the manuscript of Laura itself continues to unfold. Shades of Laura captures the living process of reception. Its conversations, reasoned speculations, analyses, and reassessments, together with Leving's creative approach to the volume itself, make a valuable contribution to Nabokov studies. Along with Rene Alladaye and Yannicke Chupin, eds., Aux origines de "Laura": Le dernier manuscrit de Vladimir Nabokov and Alexia Gassin and John Pier, eds., L'effacement selon Nabokov: "Lolita" versus "The Original of Laura" (2014), special issues of the journals Gunzo and La revue de deux mondes, and an ever-increasing number of articles and essays, Shades of Laura contributes substantively to a scholarly corpus that is rapidly cohering around a manuscript whose bodies were intended to disappear.