Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (Book Analysis) E-Book

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• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Seitenzahl: 19

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel’s titular character is Professor Timofey Pnin, a Russian émigré who teaches Russian language and literature at the fictional Waindell College in the USA. He is frequently bewildered by the unfamiliar language and customs of his adopted country, is a perennial outsider at the college, and often finds himself troubled by the dark episodes of his past. The novel showcases the linguistic inventiveness for which Nabokov is known, and is a comical but poignant exploration of exile and outsiderdom. It was Nabokov’s fourth English-language novel, and helped to cement his reputation as one of the most important and innovative writers of the 20th century.

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Leseprobe

VLADIMIR NABOKOV

RUSSIAN-AMERICAN NOVELIST

Born in St. Petersburg in 1899.Died in Montreux in 1977.Notable works:Lolita (1955), novelPale Fire (1962), novelAda or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969), novel

Born into an aristocratic Russian family in the late 19th century, Vladimir Nabokov would go on to become one of the foremost novelists of the 20th century. His family were forced to flee Russia after the 1917 October Revolution and he lived in Paris and Berlin as an exile, before moving to America in reaction to the looming danger of German occupation of France in the Second World War (1939-45) during the early 1940s. Nabokov was a renowned linguist, able to speak Russian, English and French fluently. He began writing in Russian, but it was not until he took up English – with novels such as the revered but controversial Lolita – that he began to achieve commercial and critical success. Nabokov is generally associated with innovative experiments with structure and plot, as well as with linguistic prowess, his prose boasting an elaborate use of metaphors, puns and stylish lyricism. Nabokov is the author of dozens of novels, short stories, poems and plays and was, in his time, also well regarded as an entomologist, becoming an expert in the study of butterflies.

PNIN

COLLEGIATE LIFE

Genre: novelReference edition: Nabokov, V. (2016) Pnin. London: Penguin Classics.1stedition: 1957Themes: literature, Russia, outsiderdom, memory, belonging, America, the past

Pnin was published in 1957, written in the wake of the success of Nabokov’s most famous work, Lolita. It tells the story of a college professor and Russian émigré, Timofey Pnin, and his life teaching at Waindell College in the USA, drawing from Nabokov’s own experiences as both a former Russian national and an American college professor at Cornell University and Wellesley College. It is Nabokov’s 13th