Pnin
Nabokov, Vladimir2004
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Nabokov tells the tragi-comic story of Professor Timofey Pnin - savant, emigre and linguist, happy in scholarship but disappointed in life and in love. With the lightest of touches the author sketches in a whole history from a few inconsequential episodes. A faculty party, a shipboard encounter, a series of rented rooms, give us the story coloured by fantastic humour and deep pathos. Published two years after Lolita and sharting that novel's pin-sharp observation and linguistic virtuosity, PNIN is an altogether gentler drama, recognizably descended from the fantastic humour of Gogol on the one hand, and the tender realism of Chekhov on the other.
Main title:
Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov.
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Edition:
1st.
Imprint:
LONDON: David Campbell, 2004.
Series:
Everyman's Library
Notes:
English.
ISBN:
18571527279781857152722
Dewey class:
CLF
Local class:
FFTSFAFCLSF NAB 12
Language:
English
Index terms:
FictionSSLHumour1950s
BRN:
49076
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