Publication

1989 - Vintage Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

47,750 words, Guess

Page Count

191 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3527.A15 P59 1989

Description

Life and character of a middle-aged emigre Russian professor in a small American college.

Description

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.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction.

Series Statement

  • Vintage international

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