I finished Nabokov's "Pnin" last night.

What a delight it was! Funny, clever, and oddly moving.

I would recommend getting hold of the Everyman's Library edition, as the introduction by David Lodge is both informative and perceptive.

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读过《Pnin》      
https://neodb.social/book/3vYZvWOr7xb0zreUtC5nqJ
特别特别喜欢!很轻松诙谐的小书!我一直以来都不喜欢以主角命名的小说,总觉得是作者懒得提炼,但这本不一样,这本讲的就是 Pnin 这个人,而不是他身边发生的事情,他做的事情说的话也会用 Pninian,Pninize 来表述,所以没有比这更合适的标题了。
因为 Pnin 这个人倒霉可嫌又可爱,我读起来有很多共鸣,而且最后 Pnin 很猝不及防地得知自己的职位不保,但是在得到新 offer 的时候却又说自己厌倦了教书,没有接受,想到了我最近的遭遇!
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NeoDB书 - Pnin

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) 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 émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunder-standings, 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 reader’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.

NeoDB

It was the world that was absent-minded and it was Pnin whose business it was to set it straight. His life was a constant war with insensate objects that fell apart, or attacked him, or refused to function, or viciously got themselves lost as soon as they entered the sphere of his existence.

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