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Original Title:	Pnin
ISBN:	1400041988 (ISBN13: 9781400041985)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Timofey Pnin, Laurence Clements, Joan Clements, Mrs. Thayer
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1958)

Pnin

Vladimir Nabokov

Hardcover | Pages: 143 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 17648 Users | 1337 Reviews

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Title	:	Pnin
Author	:	Vladimir Nabokov
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 143 pages
Published	:	April 6th 2004 by Everyman's Library (first published 1957)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Cultural. Russia. Novels. Literature. Russian Literature. 20th Century

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One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin 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 1950's. 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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Irony, mild pathos, fun, poetry and tragedy of life wonderfully united, through the intriguing invention of a narrator both sympathetic and unreliable.Meraviglioso incontro di ironia, pathos sommesso, comicità, poesia e tragicità della vita.Intrigante costruzione di un narratore partecipe e inaffidabile al tempo stesso.

3.70-starAdmittedly, I found less hilarity in my second revisit due to some of his unusual lengthy sentences (an exemplary extracted one below - to add later) in which I couldn't help being hypnotized and lulled into drowsiness and soon my slumber overcame me, finding it as not being proud of such a syndrome. However, I focused on his other interesting points worth looking at and talking about to share with other Nabokov readers in this Goodreads community. By means of his English wordplay from

Irony, mild pathos, fun, poetry and tragedy of life wonderfully united, through the intriguing invention of a narrator both sympathetic and unreliable.Meraviglioso incontro di ironia, pathos sommesso, comicità, poesia e tragicità della vita.Intrigante costruzione di un narratore partecipe e inaffidabile al tempo stesso.

Whilst a certain novel featuring a middle-aged man infatuating over his seduction of a 12-year-old girl was causing a storm in the literary world, along came the gentle breeze that was Pnin. Another remarkable character in a career littered with remarkable characters. After arriving in America in 1940, with wife Véra, and son Dmitri, as virtually broke refugees from Nazi-occupied France, Nabokov was able to find employment as a university teacher of Russian and comparative literature, first at

If in these beginning pages Nabokov is laying out how to read this work I can only smile, which I have been doing unnoticed since I opened the covers, and conclude that beneath the voice of erudition lies the eye wink of humor, underlined by the cunning of acerbic wit. All of this, each line will contribute to the meaning of the narrative, while the narrative itself will be a major event. I shouldnt forget, even though I dont know what it means at this point, but I am reading it aloud to myself.

Coming from the master word-smith, a critic and the dictator of the reading choices of legions of readers comes a book backed by a blurb which compares Nobokov to a standard stand-up comedian with a professional capacity of making the audience laugh hysterically. Sad to say, the humour in the books failed to appeal me and was eclipsed by the unfortunate tribulations that influenced the demure and naive professor Timofey Pnin's reputation amongst his associates and the staff of the University.

485. Pnin, Vladimir NabokovPnin is Vladimir Nabokov's 13th novel and his fourth written in English; it was published in 1957. Pnin 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