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A story that can be so funny and so tragic at the same time. Pnin's happiest times are followed by heartbreak over and over again. You can't help but feel sorry for him.
I laughed out loud at times. I especially loved the first chapter "and he still did not know that he was on the wrong train". It reads like a song or a poem. The parts in Waindell are most alive for me, the Russia or Paris parts feel less engaging, more fuzzy - maybe rightly so as they are further away in time and location.
There are small references to McCarthy'ism and the anti-Communist frenzy of the times, I suppose we can read the whole book as an absurd but real story set at an absurd but real time.
I laughed out loud at times. I especially loved the first chapter "and he still did not know that he was on the wrong train". It reads like a song or a poem. The parts in Waindell are most alive for me, the Russia or Paris parts feel less engaging, more fuzzy - maybe rightly so as they are further away in time and location.
There are small references to McCarthy'ism and the anti-Communist frenzy of the times, I suppose we can read the whole book as an absurd but real story set at an absurd but real time.