De la lume adunate

De pe NY Times, un slide-show intitulat “Inside a Female Circumcision Ceremony“. Un alt articol de pe BBC – marturia unui leader liberian ca a mancat inimi de copii ca sacrificiu uman (mai era si preot la vremema respectiva).
A propos de discutia preluata de andreanum, despre ultimul roman al lui Nabokov (andreanum expune problema frumos si are link catre articolul din Slate ce da mai multe informatii, asa ca nu voi relua problema): am gasit un articol mai vechi de la Salon.com, un interviu in ca Dmitri Nabokov in care vorbeste despre “Laura“, despre cum percepe responsabilitatea unui executor testamentar literar; in fine, e punctul lui de vedere la problema “to burn or not to burn Laura”:

“Neither Véra [Vladimir's wife and Dmitri's mother] nor I had the courage to destroy the thing,” he went on. “We knew that if we did not destroy it someone eventually would read it and indeed publish it. My mother, when she died, left me the legacy of deciding this very thorny question, and I’m now in the process of making the decision to give that novel to a worthy institution where it would be secured in the proper microclimate, and where it would be available to highly qualified scholars — and where its publication would not immediately be allowed but envisioned sometime in the future.”

In plus, din articol reiese ca Dmitri chiar a citit fragmente din acest roman:

But Kuzmanovich heard Dmitri read a few passages from the work a few years ago at a Cornell University conference.

Dintr-o data, intrebarea nu mai pare a fi “to burn or not to burn”, nu mai e vorba de respectarea ultimei dorinte a lui Nabokov.  Cred ca intrebarile relevante devin cine va avea acces primul la manuscris si va putea publica studii pe baza lui, cui ii va lasa Dmitri manuscrisul si daca va avea puterea sa renunte la manuscris si la atentia atrasa in timpul vietii.