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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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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.
"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John Updike
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- PublisherPENGUIN BOOKS LTD
- Publication date1971
- ISBN 10 0140014918
- ISBN 13 9780140014914
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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Book Description Condition: VG. A very good, clean, tight copy. Lacks title page, usual browning to paper. Used; Very Good Exiled by the Russian Revolution and what he calls the "Hitler war," Pnin teaches Russian at the fictional Waindell College, loosely inspired by places where Nabokov himself taught. First published in 1957 and then by Penguin in 1960. This 1971 printing with cover design by John Gorham, talented and prolific graphic designer of the 1970s and 1980s. Known for influential work with Windsor & Newton packaging. "His theory didn't emanate from inter-war design doctrines, it was more likely to be influenced by a sign in a launderette or a green felt pin-board; the ordinary detritus of everyday life.". Seller Inventory # 36931
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