Crossword clues for pnin
pnin
- Titular Russian professor of a Nabokov novel
- Titular professor in a Nabokov novel
- Title professor in a Nabokov novel
- Title character in a Nabokov novel
- Nabokovian prof
- Nabokov's Professor Timofey ___
- Nabokov novel of 1957
- Nabokov novel about a Russian literature teacher
- Nabokov book, 1957
- 1957 Nabokov title
Wikipedia
Pnin
Pnin 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 would launch Nabokov's career into literary prominence. The book's eponymous protagonist, Timofey Pavlovich Pnin, is a Russian-born professor living in the United States. A refugee in his 50s from both post-Revolutionary Russia and what he calls the " Hitler war," Pnin is an assistant professor of Russian at fictional Waindell College, possibly modeled on Cornell University or Wellesley College, both being places where Nabokov himself taught.