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According to a 2006 account of the book by Lara Delage-Toriel, the narrator and protagonist of Nabokov's book receives a novel titled My Laura from a painter.

The narrator realizes that the novel is in fact about his own wife Flora, whom the painter had once pursued.

In this novel within the novel, Laura is " destroyed " by the narrator ( the " I " of the book ).

Delage-Toriel also notes that the names of Laura and Flora, possibly refer to well-known High Renaissance portraits of women by Titian and Giorgione, both evoking the Italian sonneteer Petrarch's unconsummated obsession with a woman named Laura.