Pnin (Unabridged) Pnin (Unabridged)

Pnin (Unabridged‪)‬

    • 3,0 • 1 note
    • 15,99 €

Description de l’éditeur

One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian emigre precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator.

Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the listener's deepest protective instinct. 

Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity. 

GENRE
Romans et littérature
NARRATION
SR
Stefan Rudnicki
LANGUE
EN
Anglais
DURÉE
05:37
h min
SORTIE
2010
20 novembre
ÉDITIONS
Audible, Inc.
PRÉSENTÉ PAR
Audible.fr
TAILLE
297
Mo
Speak Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Unabridged) Speak Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Unabridged)
2010
Pale Fire (Unabridged) Pale Fire (Unabridged)
2010
Invitation to a Beheading (Unabridged) Invitation to a Beheading (Unabridged)
2010
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Unabridged) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Unabridged)
2024
White Noise (Unabridged) White Noise (Unabridged)
2016
In Search Of Lost Time In Search Of Lost Time
2009