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"Pnin" by Vladimir Nabokov
“Nabokov's comic masterpiece charts the wry, bizarre progress of Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, now precariously perched on a college campus in the fast-beating heart of the USA. A man of complex emotions, Pnin does halting battle with American life and language. But in this moving, amusing story of a seemingly born loser at odds with the New World, there is all the pathos of a generation cruelly and irrevocably severed from its past.”
Extracted from Penguin.
See also:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nab-r-pnin.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pnin
http://www.epdlp.com/escritor.php?id=2081
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Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov. — London: Penguin Books, 1992. — 159 p. ; 20cm — (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics).
ISBN-0 14-018170-9
PS3527.A15 A6 1992
R. 95372
