The Original of Laura is Vladimir Nabokovs final incredible unfinished novel in fragments. Dr Philip Wild a man of brilliance wit fortune and tremendous bulk is used to suffering humiliations at the hands of his wife the younger slender and rudely promiscuous Flora. But in a novel a maddening masterpiece documenting her infidelities written by one of her lovers and given to the doctor she appears as My Laura. Dishonoured Wild still finds pleasure in life by indulging in self annihilation beginning with the removal of his toes