Nabokov, Joyce, and Shakespeare’s Second Best Bed

Subtitle: Burn, Nabokov, Burn!
The current discussion of what to do with Nabokov’s posthumous work, which he wanted burned (Tom Stoppard says to burn it. John Banville says save it), reminds me of a New Yorker piece from 2006 on James Joyce’s grandson and his battle with the literary critics pulling Joyce’s work apart.
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