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One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, <i>Pnin</i> features his funniest and most heart-rending 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. 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 <i>The New Yorker</i> and published in book form in 1957, <i>Pnin</i> brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity.
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Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1991
- Einband
- (Paperback),
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- Titel
- Pnin
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Verlag
- Penguin
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1991
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 160
- ISBN10
- 0140181709
- ISBN13
- 9780140181708
- Reihe
- Kategorien
- Schlagwörter
- Humor, USA, 20. Jahrhundert, Amerikanische Literatur, Russland, Komödien, Russische Literatur, 50er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts
- Beschreibung
- One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, <i>Pnin</i> features his funniest and most heart-rending 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. 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 <i>The New Yorker</i> and published in book form in 1957, <i>Pnin</i> brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity.