Pnin: Introduction by David Lodge Everymans Library Contemporary Classics Series Hardcover 1400041988 9781400041985 Vladimir Nabokov

from jcbrunner

In seven short chapters, Nabokov animates a unique tragic hero, Timofey Pnin, an academic Mr. Bean. Displaced by two totalitarian regimes, this Russian émigré to the New World has to grapple with life (and America) at the bottom of the academic pecking order. Nabokov admirably preserves a shred o...

from brenzi

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov tells the story of professor Timofey Pnin who teaches Russian at a small New England college in the early 1950's. It is the story also of the immigrant experience at that time. It is Nabokov's intense development of this one character that takes up the entire book. Other ...

from brenzi

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov tells the story of professor Timofey Pnin who teaches Russian at a small New England college in the early 1950's. It is the story also of the immigrant experience at that time. It is Nabokov's intense development of this one character that takes up the entire book. Other ...

from jeff.maynes

Pnin, like much of Nabokov's work, is simply brilliant. The novel is a character sketch of Timofey Pnin, a Russian scholar teaching in America. Each chapter is an episode from his time teaching at the fictional Waindell College. Pnin is a rather hapless figure, and his exploits are commonly comed...

from Clara53

Although many of us might possess the ability to have a varying degree of insight in drama that envelopes life around us, very few can even approach the skill with which V. Nabokov expresses it in words. He is one of a kind. The character of Professor Pnin in this book is amusing and infuriating,...