Pnin by Nabokov, Vladimir

Pnin (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679723417)

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Pnin by Nabokov, Vladimir

Pnin

$17.00
Pnin by Nabokov, Vladimir

Pnin

$17.00
Format: Paperback
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One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity.

"Fun and satire are just the beginning of the rewards of this novel. Generous, bewildered Pnin, that most kindly and impractical of men, wins our affection and respect." --Chicago Tribune

Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunder-standings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator.

Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader's deepest protective instinct.

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN-10: 0679723412
ISBN-13: 9780679723417
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 06/18/1989
Pages: 191
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 08/16/2002 pg. 66
By Vladimir Nabokov
By Vladimir Nabokov
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One of the twentieth century's master prose stylists, VLADIMIR NABOKOV was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.

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