Pnin - Rilegato

Nabokov, Vladimir

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1857152727 ISBN 13: 9781857152722

Casa editrice: Everyman, 2004

Riassunto

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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Recensione

"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John Updike" (John Updike)

Descrizione del libro

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 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.

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• Editore: Everyman
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1857152727
• ISBN 13: 9781857152722
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 192