Author: Vladimir Nabokov
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One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest character. 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 misunderstandings. / 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.
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Collection: Compactos
BISAC Code: FIC019000
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