by Vladimir Nabokov · Rowohlt, Reinbek · tapa dura · ISBN 9783498046477
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«Pnin» is the literary fiction novel by Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov, published by Rowohlt in hardback (298 pages, in German).
The novel portrays Timofey Pnin, an émigré Russian professor at an American university, clumsy and distracted in the face of the American way of life. His dignity and seriousness end up ridiculing those who see him as a failed comic; between humour and emotion, Nabokov addresses uprootedness, identity and the difficulty of fitting into another culture.
The novel was originally published in English in 1957; this German edition, translated by Dieter E. Zimmer, appeared in 1994 as volume 9 of Nabokov's Gesammelte Werke.
Recommended for readers of classic and literary fiction interested in ironic humour and eccentric characters.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.
