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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.
Nákup knihy
Pnin, Vladimir Vladimirovič Nabokov
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 1991
- Vazba
- (měkká),
- Stav knihy
- Dobrá
- Cena
- 539 Kč
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- Titul
- Pnin
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Vydavatel
- Penguin
- Rok vydání
- 1991
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 160
- ISBN10
- 0140181709
- ISBN13
- 9780140181708
- Série
- Štítky
- Humor, USA, 20. století, Americká literatura, Rusko, Komedie, Ruská literatura, 50. léta 20. století
- Anotace
- 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.