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ashleyboggs 's review for:
Pnin
by Vladimir Nabokov
I loved the writing in Pnin! This is the first I've read from Nabokov and expect to pick up another soon. Although this is fairly short novel, the language slowed down my reading and made me linger over every paragraph. Unlike most novels where plot moves things along, my genuine interest in the main character moved this book along. Pnin follows the Russian professor Timofey Pnin as he tries to become situated in America. I found him odd and quirky, but in a lovable way. You really feel a connection with him as he navigates through an unfamiliar culture.
"He was beloved not for any essential ability but for those unforgettable digressions of his, when he would remove his glasses to beam at the past while massaging the lenses of the present."
"His life was a constant war with insensate objects that fell apart, or attacked him, or refused to function, or viciously got themselves lost as soon as they entered the sphere of his existence."
"The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense."
"He was beloved not for any essential ability but for those unforgettable digressions of his, when he would remove his glasses to beam at the past while massaging the lenses of the present."
"His life was a constant war with insensate objects that fell apart, or attacked him, or refused to function, or viciously got themselves lost as soon as they entered the sphere of his existence."
"The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense."