Pnin

Pnin

by Vladimir Nabokov
Pnin

Pnin

by Vladimir Nabokov

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Overview

El protagonista de esta novela es el profesor Pnin, un ruso de la emigración que se gana la vida dando clases a media docena escasa de alumnos desganados que acuden a su aula como quien va a ver una película de Buster Keaton. Pero los verdaderos enemigos del inefable e infeliz Pnin son los extraños artilugios de la modernidad: coches, electrodomésticos y demás máquinas que, al menos a él, no le facilitan precisamente la vida. Y también los mezquinos intereses y la mediocridad de sus colegas, una pandilla de ambiciosos profesorzuelos que ponen a prueba su infinita paciencia. O los psiquiatras entre los que se mueve la que fue su esposa, una mujer que nunca le amó pero de la que sigue imperturbable y conmovedoramente enamorado. De modo que, al final, el ridiculizado Pnin acaba emergiendo como una figura casi heroica, un ser civilizado en medio de la incivilización industrial, el único que todavía conserva un resto de dignidad humana.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788433960719
Publisher: Anagrama
Publication date: 08/30/2020
Edition description: Spanish-language Edition
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.60(d)
Language: Spanish

About the Author

One of the twentieth century's master prose stylists, VLADIMIR NABOKOV was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.

Date of Birth:

April 23, 1899

Date of Death:

July 2, 1977

Place of Birth:

St. Petersburg, Russia

Place of Death:

Montreux, Switzerland

Education:

Trinity College, Cambridge, 1922

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INTRODUCTION by David Lodge
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