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Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov ; with an introduction by David Lodge.
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9781857152722 (hardback)
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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
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Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov ; with an introduction by David Lodge.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
©1985
Description
xxix, 143 pages ; 21 cm.
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Originally published 1957.
Includes bibliographical references (page xxiii).
Summary
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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Russian Americans -- Fiction
College teachers -- Fiction
Immigrants -- Fiction
Genre
Humorous fiction
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Lodge, David, 1935-
author of introduction, etc.
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College teachers -- Fiction
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Immigrants -- Fiction
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Russian Americans -- Fiction
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