Are The Makropulos Affair and From the House of the Dead both written by Leoš Janáček?
The Makropulos Affair (opera) The Makropulos Affair (or "The Makropoulos Case", "The Makropulos Secret", or, literally, "The Makropulos Thing"; Czech Věc Makropulos) is a Czech opera in 3 acts, with music and libretto by Leoš Janáček. Janáček based his opera on the play "Věc Makropulos" by Karel Čapek. Composed between 1923 and 1925, "The Makropulos Affair" was his penultimate opera and, like much of his later work, was inspired by his infatuation with Kamila Stösslová, a married woman much younger than himself.
The Original of Laura The Original of Laura is the incomplete novel by Vladimir Nabokov, which he was writing at the time of his death in 1977. It was finally published, after 30 years of private debate, on November 17, 2009. Nabokov had requested that the work be destroyed upon his death, but his family hesitated to carry out his wish to destroy an incomplete but perhaps important literary work. Over the next years its contents were viewed only by Nabokov's son, wife, and a few scholars.