Original of Laura

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.

Dr. Philip Wild, un om stralucitor, istet, avere si o greutate extraordinara, este obisnuit sa sufere umilinte din partea sotiei sale, Flora mai tanara, zvelta si grosolan promiscua. Dar intr-un roman, o ,,capodopera innebunitoare" care documenteaza infidelitatile ei, scris de unul dintre iubiti si daruit medicului, ea apare ca Laura mea.