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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. One of the twentieth century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977. “Hilariously funny and of a sadness.” ― Graham Greene
- Sales Rank: #6676627 in Books
- Published on: 2010-10-20
- Formats: Audiobook, CD, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 5
- Dimensions: 6.50" h x 1.00" w x 7.13" l, .75 pounds
- Running time: 6 Hours
- Binding: Audio CD
From Publishers Weekly
Nabokov fans will be disappointed by narrator Stefan Rudnicki's stiff, staid performance in this audio version of the author's 13th novel. Told in a series of vignettes, the story follows Russian immigrant and professor Timofey Pavlovich Pnin as he boards the wrong train on his way to deliver a lecture, loses his luggage, struggles with the English language, hunts for living quarters, deals with his ex-wife, and throws a faculty party. Rudnicki's narration is clear and steady, but fails to capture the playfulness of Nabokov's prose and the humor of the text. Instead, Rudnicki's tone is variously stiff, needlessly booming, or monotone. He does, however, provide a wide range of voices for the cast of characters. His rendition of the title character-which sounds like a hybrid of Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat and Soviet comedian Yakov Smirnoff-is dynamic and entertaining. Listeners will be left wishing Rudnicki had infused more of his narration with those qualities. (Nov.)
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"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John Updike" John Updike
Language Notes
Text: Russian, English (translation)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Good character study
By Margaret Baker
This is an interesting character study of an immigrant professor of Russian studies, who came to the US from Russia, and teaches at a fictitious college in the 1st half of the 20th century. The writing is beautiful. Don't look for a definitive beginning and ending to this story while reading it. It is a series of episodes, amusing at times, centering around the main character, Pnin.
As I am somewhat familiar with Russian culture of that generation, and have known several Russian immigrants, it was sort of nostalgic for me.
I enjoyed it very much. I gave it only 4 stars because I admit once in a while it got a little tedious.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
To be placed among the best novellas.
By Marvin L. Welborn
This is the first Nabokov I have experienced, and it has kindled (I should be compensated by that plug) further exploratory interests. I had never known Nabokov was so good a writer; actually, he is better than good, if I may be so bold from a single reading. Nabokov steadfastly belongs with that long-lined confederacy of Russian writers that have proven their artistic mettle. With Pnin, attentive reading will be needed to unearth the symbolism inherent therein a casual reading will miss. This is an art-work for both the casual reader and the intellectual detective, the latter will obtain the most from its digestion. Though not pulp fiction, ironically its emergence comes unto us from that incipient structure of the the story-installment magazine form (a la Dickens, et.al.). Pnin marks the story of a Russian emigre from the Bolshevik Revolution to America and his difficulties at blending-in to Americana as a professor of Russian Literature via the ''campus story'' sub-genre of fiction -- among the first of such experiments. The story is told from an omniscient Narrator, who knows Timofey Pnin and is himself a character introduced late in the novella. It is difficult to tell whether the Narrator is a friend or the nemesis of Pnin, for the latter is ''skewered'' in farcical scorn form. The Narrator treats of Pnin non-heroically, yet one gets glimpses here (from Pnin's) interior senses, he is heroic (in the sense of noble, self-sacrificing, and altruistic. Who does the Reader believe? A bathetic Pnin from the Narrator's perspective or empathetic Pnin from a close reading? Does the Life of Pnin truly fall apart or does he bounce back as he meets yet another life-changing experience at the ending? The reader will exit with questions of his/her own about the symbolism and metaphor permeating the novella -- What of the squirrels? The ant? The dogs? other animalia?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Brilliantly tragic and comic
By doc peterson
Having never read anything by Nabokov before, on the strength of Amazon reviewers, and as an academic, I was intrigued by _Pnin_. The similarities between the fictional Pnin and his creator are many: both are Russian emigres, both teach at Eastern universities (Pnin at Waindell, Nabokov at Cornell, Wellsley and Harvard); however, while Timofei Pnin has difficulty ("dzeefeecooltsee") with English, while Nabokov was a master. Perhaps Nabokov uses Pnin as a foil to to highlight the silliness of academia and the petty intrigue and drama that is such a staple of university life. Whether or not this was his intent, the book is delightful.
Pnin himself is at once both a comic and tragic character - an emigre who does not wholly fit in his adopted country, but who has a passion for his subject (Russian language and literature); an academic who is unknowingly a laughingstock, but who also is a hopeless romantic, hoping a lost lover will return, trying to do right by her son from another man.
What struck me most powerfully, however, was Nabokov's brilliant way with words - not only the Russian and German (which was liberally sprinkled throughout the book) - but of English as well: "One had to forget - because one could not live with the thought that this graceful, fragile, tender youhng woman with those eyes, that smile, those gardens and snows in the background, had been brought in a cattle car to an extermination camp and killed by an injection ... into the heart, into the gentle heart one had heard beating under one's lips in the dusk of the past." (p 135)
Nabokov skewers academic politics, professors who take themselves entirely too seriously, and even students (the "typical American college student who does not know geography, is immune to noise, and thinks education is but a means to get eventually a remunerative job." (pp125 - 6). Yet this is done with such tenderness and gentleness through the character of Pnin, that one hardly notices the sharp edge beneath the words.
Pnin himself is loveable and sweet, largly because he is such a fish out of water, with such good intentions that are too often misunderstood. I thorougly enjoyed _Pnin_ in equal measure for Nabokov's way with words as for his satire of academic life, and I look forward to reading more by him. Highly recommended.
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