"Penin" is one of the most popular novels of "Vladimir Nabokov" which has one of the funniest and at the same time the most heartbreaking characters among the characters created by him. Professor Timofey "Penin" is a Rus ...
"Penin" is one of the most popular novels of "Vladimir Nabokov" which has one of the funniest and at the same time the most heartbreaking characters among the characters created by him. Professor Timofey "Penin" is a Russian immigrant in the 1950s who is lost and wandering and anxiously works in an American college. "Penin" tries to preserve his dignity and honor in a series of sad and sometimes humorous misunderstandings. But all these events take place in a context of subtle academic conspiracies and the manipulations of a narrator who is deliberately unreliable.
"Vladimir Nabokov" was first created in the form of an almost comical character who gradually learns to deal with people who laugh at him. Penin, the ludicrous and terrifying protagonist of this fascinating novel, whether by getting on the wrong train to give a speech in a language he is not very fluent in, or by throwing a party with pretentious professors where Fahmed is about to lose his job, slowly and gradually arousing the readers' deepest protective instincts. He is also an indefatigable lover who gives his unfaithful lover everything he has in his heart and receives nothing in return but indifference and ridicule.
This acclaimed novel with its non-uniform storyline has attracted the attention of many audiences and has brought great national and international fame to "Vladimir Nabokov".
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