Pnin
By: Vladimir Nabokov.
Edition: 1st Vintage international ed.
Series: Vintage international
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Russian Americans -- Fiction.; College teachers -- Fiction.; Immigrants -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
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.