Pnin

In "Pnin," our Russian-born professor of Russian at Waindell College frequents an unsuccessful restaurant "from sheer sympathy with failure."

Satires of Academic Life That Sit at the Head of the Class 2008

In "Pnin," our Russian-born professor of Russian at Waindell College frequents an unsuccessful restaurant "from sheer sympathy with failure."

Five Best 2008

There is a wallpaper pattern straight out of "Pnin," a feverish childhood dream of a monster, which in "Laura" is bravely erased: "Finally it gave up - as some day life will give up - bothering me," the origins and the deletion, all at once.

The St. Petersburg Times 2009

8. Which author created the character Professor Timofey Pnin in his 1957 novel "Pnin"?

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference 2009

A sketch of her fumbling attempts, after a childhood shorn of contact even with cows, to net a cabbage white while walking in the groomed wilderness of a national park, brings Pnin irresistibly to mind.

The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness by Lila Azam Zanganeh – review 2011

Pnin combines a deep pleasure in America with the sadness of losing Russia.

Archive 2010-01-01 2010

Pnin combines a deep pleasure in America with the sadness of losing Russia.

Conservative novels 2010

In Josef Pronek, displaced to Chicago in the early nineties as the war in Bosnia rages on, Hemon has created the most endearing immigrant in American fiction since Nabokov's Pnin.

Anis Shivani: The Best Books of the Decade 2009

Got a copy of Pnin on the shelf; have been hesitant.

I Really Shouldn't Do This: The Guardian's Science Fiction And Fantasy Novel List Sean Craven 2009

Pnin, his first choice, is not a novel about an immigrant at all.

Five Books of immigrants 2009