Pnin

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307787477

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Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Serialized 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. “Fun and satire are just the beginning of the rewards of this novel. Generous, bewildered Pnin, that most kindly and impractical of men, wins our affection and respect.” —Chicago Tribune Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunder-standings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator. Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader’s deepest protective instinct.

Author : Patrick M. O'Neil
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0761474757

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Great World Writers by Patrick M. O'Neil Pdf

This nicely illustrated reference for junior high and high school students offers 20-page profiles of 93 of the world's most influential writers of the twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically, each profile provides facts about the writer's life and works as well as a commentary on his or her significance, discussion of political and social events that occurred during his or her lifetime, a reader's guide to major works, and events, beliefs or traditions that inspired the writer's works.

Author : Геннадий Барабтарло
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015028519570

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Phantom of Fact by Геннадий Барабтарло Pdf

Author : Galya Diment
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780295801087

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Pniniad by Galya Diment Pdf

In this wry, judiciously balanced, and thoroughly engaging book, Galya Diment explores the complicated and fascinating relationship between Vladimir Nabokov and his Cornell colleague Marc Szeftel who, in the estimate of many, served as the prototype for the gentle protagonist of the novel Pnin. She offers astute comments on Nabokov�s fictional process in creating Timogey Pnin and addresses hotly debated questions and long-standing riddles in Pnin and its history. Between the two of them, Nabokov and Szeftel embodied much of the complexity and variety of the Russian postrevolution emigre experience in Europe and the United States. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and diaries as well as on interview with family, friends, and collegues, Diment illuminates a fascinating cultural terrain. Pniniad--the epic of Pnin--begins with Szeftel�s early life in Russia and ends with his years in Seattle at the University of Washington, turning pivotally upon the time in Szeftel�s and Nabokov�s lives intersected at Cornell. Nabokov apparantly was both amused by and admiring of the innocence of his historian friend. Szeftel�s feelings towards Nabokov were also mixed, raning from intense disappointment over rebuffed attempts to collaborate with Nabokov to persistent envy of Nabokov�s success and an increasing wistfulness over his own sense of failure.

Author : Bright Summaries
Publisher : BrightSummaries.com
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9782808019460

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Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (Book Analysis) by Bright Summaries Pdf

Unlock the more straightforward side of Pnin with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel’s titular character is Professor Timofey Pnin, a Russian émigré who teaches Russian language and literature at the fictional Waindell College in the USA. He is frequently bewildered by the unfamiliar language and customs of his adopted country, is a perennial outsider at the college, and often finds himself troubled by the dark episodes of his past. The novel showcases the linguistic inventiveness for which Nabokov is known, and is a comical but poignant exploration of exile and outsiderdom. It was Nabokov’s fourth English-language novel, and helped to cement his reputation as one of the most important and innovative writers of the 20th century. Find out everything you need to know about Pnin in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!

Author : Brian Boyd
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400884032

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Vladimir Nabokov by Brian Boyd Pdf

The story of Nabokov's life continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself and his family was not easy--until the astonishing success of Lolita catapulted him to world fame and financial security.

Author : Eric Naiman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801460234

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Nabokov, Perversely by Eric Naiman Pdf

In an original and provocative reading of Vladimir Nabokov's work and the pleasures and perils to which its readers are subjected, Eric Naiman explores the significance and consequences of Nabokov's insistence on bringing the issue of art's essential perversity to the fore. Nabokov's fiction is notorious for the interpretive panic it occasions in its readers, the sense that no matter how hard he or she tries, the reader has not gotten Nabokov "right." At the same time, the fictions abound with characters who might be labeled perverts, and questions of sexuality lurk everywhere. Naiman argues that the sexual and the interpretive are so bound together in Nabokov's stories and novels that the reader confronts the fear that there is no stable line between good reading and overreading, and that reading Nabokov well is beset by the exhilaration and performance anxiety more frequently associated with questions of sexuality than of literature. Nabokov's fictions pervert their readers, obligingly training them to twist and turn the text in order to puzzle out its meanings, so that they become not better people but closer readers, assuming all the impudence and potential for shame that sexually oriented close-looking entails. In Nabokov, Perversely, Naiman traces the connections between sex and interpretation in Lolita (which he reads as a perverse work of Shakespeare scholarship), Pnin, Bend Sinister, and Ada. He examines the roots of perverse reading in The Defense and charts the enhanced attention to the connection between sex and metafiction in works translated from the Russian. He also takes on books by other authors—such as Reading Lolita in Tehran—that misguidedly incorporate Nabokov's writing within frameworks of moral usefulness. In a final, extraordinary chapter, Naiman reads Dostoevsky's The Double with Nabokov-trained eyes, making clear the power a strong writer can exert on readers.

Author : Leona Toker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801422116

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Nabokov by Leona Toker Pdf

"In each chapter Toker carefully reconstructs a novel for us those are not mere plot summaries, but mature products of several re-readings and proceeds to make her way through the novel's numerous patterns, images, themes and motifs in an attempt to..."

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679725411

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Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

The darkly comic Transparent Things, one of Nabokov's final books, traces the bleak life of Hugh Person through murder, madness, prison and trips to Switzerland. One of these was the last journey his father ever took; on another, having been sent to ingratiate himself with a distinguished novelist, he met his future wife. "As casual, as unpredictable, as eccentric and as daunting as Mr. Nabokov's genius." -Mavis Gallant, The New York Times Book Review Nabokov's brilliant short novel sinks into the transparent things of the world that surround this one person, to the silent histories they carry. Remarkable even in Nabokov's work for its depth and lyricism, Transparent Things is a small, experimental marvel of memories and dreams, both sentimental and malign. “The final effect is both chill and comic, the transparencies both beautiful and terrifying.” —The Times (London)

Author : Panagiotis D. Christofides,Nael El-Farra
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3540284567

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Control of Nonlinear and Hybrid Process Systems by Panagiotis D. Christofides,Nael El-Farra Pdf

This monograph provides insight and fundamental understanding into the feedback control of nonlinear and hybrid process systems. It presents state-of-the-art methods for the synthesis of nonlinear feedback controllers for nonlinear and hybrid systems with uncertainty, constraints and time-delays with numerous applications, especially to chemical processes. It covers both state feedback and output feedback (including state estimator design) controller designs. Control of Nonlinear and Hybrid Process Systems includes numerous comments and remarks providing insight and fundamental understanding into the feedback control of nonlinear and hybrid systems, as well as applications that demonstrate the implementation and effectiveness of the presented control methods. The book includes many detailed examples which can be easily modified by a control engineer to be tailored to a specific application. This book is useful for researchers in control systems theory, graduate students pursuing their degree in control systems and control engineers.

Author : Sarah Stonich
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780816685059

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These Granite Islands by Sarah Stonich Pdf

These Granite Islands is an arresting novel about a woman who, on her deathbed, recalls the haunting and fateful summer of 1936, a summer that forever changed her life. Sarah Stonich’s debut novel, set on the Iron Range of Minnesota, is an intimate and gripping story of a friendship, a portrait of marriage, and a meditation on the tragedy of loss.

Author : Gerard de Vries,Donald Barton Johnson
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9053567909

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Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Painting by Gerard de Vries,Donald Barton Johnson Pdf

Studie van de verwijzingen naar beeldende kunst in het werk van de Russisch-Amerikaanse schrijver (1899-1977).

Author : Azar Nafisi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300159752

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That Other World by Azar Nafisi Pdf

The foundational text for the acclaimed international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran “Empathetic, incisive. . . . A sweeping overview of Nabokov's major works. . . . Graceful [and] discerning.”—Kirkus Reviews The ruler of a totalitarian state seeks validation from a former schoolmate, now the nation’s foremost thinker, in order to access a cultural cache alien to his regime. A literary critic provides commentary on an unfinished poem that both foretells the poet’s death and announces the critic’s secret identity as the king of a lost country. The greatest of Vladimir Nabokov’s enchanters—Humbert—is lost within the antithesis of a fairy story, in which Lolita does not hold the key to his past but rather imprisons him within the knowledge of his distance from that past. In this precursor to her international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi deftly explores the worlds apparently lost to Nabokov’s characters, their portals of access to those worlds, and how other worlds hold a mirror to Nabokov’s experiences of physical, linguistic, and recollective exile. Written before Nafisi left the Islamic Republic of Iran, and now published in English for the first time and with a new introduction by the author, this book evokes the reader’s quintessential journey of discovery and reveals what caused Nabokov to distinctively shape and reshape that journey for the author.

Author : Vladimir Nabokov Literary Trust,Brian Boyd
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101873700

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Think, Write, Speak by Vladimir Nabokov Literary Trust,Brian Boyd Pdf

A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy. “I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child": so Vladimir Nabokov famously wrote in the introduction to his volume of selected prose, Strong Opinions. Think, Write, Speak follows up where that volume left off, with a rich compilation of his uncollected prose and interviews, from a 1921 essay about Cambridge to two final interviews in 1977. The chronological order allows us to watch the Cambridge student and the fledgling Berlin reviewer and poet turn into the acclaimed Paris émigré novelist whose stature brought him to teach in America, where his international success exploded with Lolita and propelled him back to Europe. Whether his subject is Proust or Pushkin, the sport of boxing or the privileges of democracy, Nabokov’s supreme individuality, his keen wit, and his alertness to the details of life illuminate the page.

Author : Julian W. Connolly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521632838

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Nabokov and His Fiction by Julian W. Connolly Pdf

In this 1999 collection, eleven leading scholars offer original essays on Nabokov and his fiction.