Author: | Vladimir Nabokov | ISBN: | 9780307787477 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | February 16, 2011 |
Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
Author: | Vladimir Nabokov |
ISBN: | 9780307787477 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication: | February 16, 2011 |
Imprint: | Vintage |
Language: | English |
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.
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.