Shortcuts
Please wait while page loads.
Canterbury-Bankstown Library Service . Default .
PageMenu- Main Menu-
Page content

Catalogue Display

Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov ; with an introduction by David Lodge.

Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov ; with an introduction by David Lodge.
.
Item Information
Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Branch Status Due Date
AF NABO
 Adult Fiction   Campsie . . Available .  
Reserve any copy Click Here Catalogue Record 1203388
. Catalogue Record 1203388 ItemInfo . Catalogue Record 1203388 ItemInfo Top of page .
Catalogue Information
Field name Details
ISBN 9781857152722 (hardback)
Name Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 author.
Title Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov ; with an introduction by David Lodge.
Published New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
©1985
Description xxix, 143 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes 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.
Subjects Russian Americans -- Fiction
College teachers -- Fiction
Immigrants -- Fiction
Genre Humorous fiction
Other Names Lodge, David, 1935- author of introduction, etc.
Links to Related Works
Subject References:
See Also:
Authors:
.
Related Searches Catalogue Record 1203388
.
Add Title to Basket Catalogue Record 1203388
.
Catalogue Information 1203388 . Catalogue Information 1203388 Top of page .
Quick Search