Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov

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Obsah:
Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched on a college campus in the fast-beating heart of the USA. In a series of funny-sad half-misunderstandings, Professor Pnin does halting battle with American life and language, engaging such Nabokovian enemies as quack psychoanalysts (psychoasinine). But in this moving, amusing story of a pleasant pedant at odds with a gadget-ridden society there is all the pathos of a generation cruelly irrevocably severed from its past.
Nabokov’s comic masterpiece plots the wry, bizarre progress of an elderly Russian professor in the brash New World; originally serialised 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.

Jazyk: Anglický
Počet strán: 160