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Pnin (Penguin Modern Classics) - Community Reviews back

by Vladimir Nabokov
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immediacy
immediacy rated it 27 years ago
I needed the annotated version of this short novel by Nabokov, because I'm sure that I missed many of the things that were happening here. Basically the story of a Russian exile who teaches at an American university (something Nabokov was quite familiar with, in the grand "write what you know" tradi...
Manny Rayner's book reviews
Manny Rayner's book reviews rated it 27 years ago
It seems odd to put a spoiler warning on this review, but I think that Pnin is actually a mystery. Of a very unusual kind, however. The most common type of mystery is, of course, the whodunnit. Pnin certainly doesn't belong to that category: to start off with, no one really does anything. And it isn...
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