Pnin (Magill Book Reviews)

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The plot unfolds as a series of droll vignettes in which Professor Timofey Pnin tries to find suitable living quarters, teaches class, does research in the library, receives visits from his former wife and her precocious son, summers with fellow emigres at a country house, and, thinking that he will finally be able to settle down, gives what he calls a “house-heating” party.

Those critics who complain of the novel’s episodic structure have missed the architectonic detail, characteristic of Nabokov, that ultimately makes PNIN such a cohesive fiction. This detail is visible...

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