Pnin

Pnin 1957, the fourth English-language novel by Vladimir Nabokov, is dedicated to the life tribulations of one of the most defenseless and touching characters in 20th-century literature. A true Russian intellectual, a wonderful scholar, but an eccentric and unfortunate person,... Timofey Pnin, who left Russia after the 1917 revolution, teaches Russian literature at an American university where he becomes an accidental victim of intrigues and the harshness of his colleagues. Will he manage to evade his crafty creator this time, who has prepared for him the fate of a sufferer, forced to endure the blows of fate time and time again? Pnin saw the light soon after the scandalous Lolita and, receiving enthusiastic reviews from readers and critics, served as a kind of antithesis to the prevailing notion of Nabokov's immorality and soullessness. This edition of the novel is accompanied by a preface, notes, and a concluding essay by the translator. The features of the translator's spelling, punctuation, and transliteration have been preserved.