Pnin

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / General / Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
On Shelf At: Traverwood Branch

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Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous Liza: "A genius needs to keep so much in store, and thus cannot offer you the whole of himself as I do." Pnin is the focal point of subtle academic conspiracies he cannot begin to comprehend, yet he stages a faculty party to end all faculty parties forever.

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sad but sweet submitted by cdfine on August 1, 2022, 10:09pm Both funny but also sad. The main character is a little bit of a wreck and we empathize but also just feel bad for him. Like any older read there's a higher reading level and dated vocabulary. Also a super unreliable narrator to piece through what's really going on. Definitely an intense contrast in tone and style to Lolita even though both explore the story of a pathetic, older, erudite European man with failed relationships and the precocious kid of a former lover and nomadic housing and the influence of the rise of the Freudian movement. Thankfully, this book is not sexual though; there are zero sex scenes. There is a lot of Russian though.