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A charming, tragicomical story. A supposedly unknown author paints a beautiful portrait of Timofej Pavlovitjs Pnin, a Russian immigrant in the United States, lecturer at a small American university. Pnin is a very distracted man with an enormuous knowledge of Russian literature, but also with great difficulties to adapt to American society. We think he is kind of ridicule, with his strange Russian accent and funny ways of doing. But that also makes him a tragic figure, because in the end we realise Pnin has his own dignity that confronts us with what we find self-evident, but, of course, it isn't. This novel seems like an experiment of Nabokov, with weak but also hilaric parts. it's not recorded as his best work, but - as always with Nabokov - the prose is superb and this great-little man Pnin is painted with such warm compassion. Great fun to read.