Puning

Author: (American) Vladimir Nabokov (Nabokov, V.) wrote, translated by Mei Shaowu
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Features: The Pnin is one of Nabokov's novels that attracted wide attention and popularity among American readers. It describes the life of an emigrant Russian professor teaching at a university in the United States. He is gentle-natured and out of sync with his surroundings, often subjected to teasing by his colleagues, and his wife also abandoned him. He lives alone, forced to immerse himself in old books, studying Russian ancient culture and classical literature for comfort. He constantly recalls the past, revealing a strong nostalgia. Nabokov skillfully integrates Russian culture with modern American civilization, humorously and ingeniously portraying a wanderer who lost his homeland, was cut off from his homeland's culture, and also lost love. A masterful portrait of a small world emigrant, a pioneer in American academic absurd fiction, Nabokov's most autobiographical humorous classic masterpiece. The Pnin is one of Nabokov's novels that attracted wide attention and popularity among American readers. It describes the life of an emigrant Russian professor teaching at a university in the United States. He is gentle-natured and out of sync with his surroundings, often subjected to teasing by his colleagues, and his wife also abandoned him.