Pnin

by Vladimir Nabokov | Literature & Fiction |
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Registered by dolphin-au of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on 10/14/2004
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Journal Entry 1 by dolphin-au from Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, October 14, 2004
Great book. I thought I lost this, but found it again when cleaning up before our move. Depicts contrast of European and American mentality through the story of immigrant Pnin.

Journal Entry 2 by dolphin-au at Bellingen, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Released 13 yrs ago (6/23/2010 UTC) at Bellingen, New South Wales Australia

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Sent to VeganMedusa as part of the 1001 VBB. Enjoy!

Journal Entry 3 by VeganMedusa at Invercargill, Southland New Zealand on Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Thanks!

Journal Entry 4 by VeganMedusa at Invercargill, Southland New Zealand on Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Hilarious. Poor Pnin. But I liked the ending, with some hope.
I'll put this back in the 1001 VBB.

One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin 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 misunder-standings, 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 The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity.

Journal Entry 5 by VeganMedusa at Invercargill, Southland New Zealand on Friday, May 4, 2012
Travelling to a fellow NZ bookcrosser and 1001 lister.

Journal Entry 6 by Sfogs at Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand on Sunday, May 6, 2012
Thank you~!! It's arrived safely!

Journal Entry 7 by Sfogs at Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand on Sunday, June 1, 2014
A nice little story.
Though poor Pnin, you really just want something to go right for him.

Journal Entry 8 by Sfogs at Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand on Thursday, June 5, 2014

Released 9 yrs ago (6/5/2014 UTC) at Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand

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Off to the Netherlands! Enjoy this little 1001 list book :-)

Journal Entry 9 by motherof11 at Dalfsen, Overijssel Netherlands on Friday, June 27, 2014
The book arrived safely. Thank you so much, Sfogs! What a nice surprise! I've read several of Nabokov's books, but not this one, so I'm really looking forward to reading it!

Journal Entry 10 by motherof11 at Dalfsen, Overijssel Netherlands on Monday, July 7, 2014
What a lovely book! I enjoyed it very much!
Thanks for sharing this with me, Sfogs!

Journal Entry 11 by motherof11 at Basingstoke, Hampshire United Kingdom on Friday, September 18, 2015

Released 8 yrs ago (9/18/2015 UTC) at Basingstoke, Hampshire United Kingdom

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This book goes to pinkoeria.
Enjoy!

Journal Entry 12 by pinkoeria at Basingstoke, Hampshire United Kingdom on Sunday, September 20, 2015
Thank you very much for this book, looks very interesting.

Released 6 yrs ago (5/13/2017 UTC) at Southampton Airport Parkway Railway Station in Southampton, Hampshire United Kingdom

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