Pnin Hardcover - 2004
by Vladimir Nabokov; Introduction by David Lodge
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One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, PNIN features his funniest and most heartrending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian emigre precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings, 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. 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.
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- Title Pnin
- Author Vladimir Nabokov; Introduction by David Lodge
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 143
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Everyman's Library, New York
- Date 2004-04-06
- ISBN 9781400041985 / 1400041988
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.32 x 5.26 x 0.65 in (21.13 x 13.36 x 1.65 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects College teachers - United States, Refugees - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004271364
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Newsweek, 08/11/2008, Page 12
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