Pnin (novel)

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Pnin (Russian: Пнин, pronounced [pnʲin]) is Vladimir Nabokov's 13th novel and his fourth written in English; it was published in 1957. The success of Pnin in the United States helped establish Nabokov's literary reputation there. The novel's title character, Timofey Pavlovich Pnin, is a Russian-born assistant professor in his fifties who lives in the United States. The character is believed to have been based partly on Nabokov's colleague Marc Szeftel and partly on Nabokov himself. Displaced by the Russian Revolution and what he calls the "Hitler war", Pnin teaches Russian at the fictional Waindell College, loosely based on two institutions where Nabokov taught: Cornell University and Wellesley College.

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