Pnin: Vladimir Nabokov (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Vladimir Nabokov

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141183756 ISBN 13: 9780141183756

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2000

Synopsis

Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world: the ruination of his beautiful lumber-room-as-office; the removal of his teeth and the fitting of new ones; the search for a suitable boarding house; and the trials of taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has yet to master.

Wry, intelligent and moving, Pnin reveals the absurd and affecting story of one man in exile.

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Review:

"Hilariously funny and of a sadness." -Graham Greene ""Pnin"'s vita, though its essence is saintliness, is yet a work of brilliant magic and fabulous laughter." -"The New Republic " "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 " "Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way the masters can-to laughter that is near to tears." -"The Guardian"

Book Description:

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 émigré 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0141183756
• ISBN 13: 9780141183756
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176