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Pnin

Vladimir Nabokov

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Pnin won the National Book Award nomination and was published in book form in 1957. 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.

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Publisher
Vintage
Year
2011
ISBN-13
9780307787477
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Émigré experience and displacementAcademic satireIsolation and identity

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