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Vladimir Nabokov

Pnin

Oh happy days.... The Book Fairy paid me a visit today and left a few surprises. Hehehe - Pnin and Ada were amongst them.:cool: And a visit to a bookstore too.:cool: What more could a gal wish for:D Now I'm on the hunt - must go don Sherlock Holmes hat and dust off my magnifying glass. Mmm Meersham pipe - cough, splutter - think I'll give that item a miss. OK Timofey of the ideally bald, sun-tanned, and clean shaven appearance, what's this I hear about a puzzle??? Come out, come out, where ever you are.....
 
Breaca said:
Oh happy days.... The Book Fairy paid me a visit today and left a few surprises. Hehehe - Pnin and Ada were amongst them.:cool: And a visit to a bookstore too.:cool: What more could a gal wish for:D Now I'm on the hunt - must go don Sherlock Holmes hat and dust off my magnifying glass. Mmm Meersham pipe - cough, splutter - think I'll give that item a miss. OK Timofey of the ideally bald, sun-tanned, and clean shaven appearance, what's this I hear about a puzzle??? Come out, come out, where ever you are.....
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Well! I say there old girl! How delightful! Hurry up and read, read, read!!

Right! But do leave off the pipe. LOL:D
 
Any artists out there - I'd love to see a picture of our Timofey. What an odd looking fellow. I'm already reminded of a character you'd expect to find in a Charles Dickens book.

Must dash, have been given the order to read, read, read - and I'd hate to disappoint you know who.:p
 
Breaca said:
Any artists out there - I'd love to see a picture of our Timofey. What an odd looking fellow. I'm already reminded of a character you'd expect to find in a Charles Dickens book.

Must dash, have been given the order to read, read, read - and I'd hate to disappoint you know who.:p
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:D :D Look up the thread and see who StillILearn and I have decided to play our Timofey...
 
StillILearn said:
mentally remove the eyebrows
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Awwwww, Poirot is so much better looking :D

Ideally bald, sun-tanned, and clean shaven, great brown dome and tortoise-shell glasses masking the absence of eyebrows, an apish upper lip, thick neck and a strong-man torso.

His appearance - the impressive combination of head, shoulders and torso that tapers off disappointingly in "a pair of spindly legs... and frail-looking, almost feminine feet" But you hardly notice:)
Discussion on Pnin
 
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Too fat?
 
NO! NO! NO! Not George!!!
I still like Suchet best. He has the slightly "prissy" but still masculine aura that Pnin possesses.
Lose the facial hair, he has the right "attitude" for Pnin. Definitely NOT Ustinov. :eek:

Madeline! That is a wonderful discussion! And fairly recent too! Its so wonderful to read what others, and know that others find Pnin so wonderfully fascinating as we do. Thank you so much for finding it!! I have not been able to finish it yet, but will later, as it is saved in my Favorites!
 
Still, the icon next to the quote, the picture one.

Click that and add your link.

Great discussion, be back in a while to join in :)
 
Pnin

OK guys!, started new Pnin thread under fiction, so lets carry on over there if you wish.......

Now I know how Peder feels when he opens a new thread!!

Nervous, nervous,

oh, and yes.

Nervous! :eek:
 
StillILearn said:
Too self-assured, and -- assuredly -- not nearly sad enough. ;) Also, obviously an American. :D
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He's Jason Alexander on Seinfeld Show, he can really get beat down though.
 
Hurry back Peder, we're discussing Pnin (how is that pronounced by the way, is it Puh-neen, like I saw somewhere around these threads?) without you :eek:
 
VN:The American Years by Brian Boyd

Every year from at least 1947, Nabokov kept a slim pocket diary for appointments, lecture schedules, publishers' deadlines. Only on rare occasons would he jot down in a hurried hand an epigram, an observation, a record of last night's dream. But for New Year's Day, 1951, Vera Nabokov gave her husband a page-a-day yearbook that he filled daily for over two months until the impulse wore off. It is an extraordinary record of the fertility of his imagination, the range of his curiosity, and pressures weighing him down.
On January 5 he noted:
Quite an accumulaton of work I shall have to complete during January:
1. finish arranging my notes on Mme Bovary
2. same in relation to Proust
3. ponder various phases of my spring course
4. write the 6000 word article (on Soviet ideas about America, in their plays and stories) that have discussed with Ross. Continuous series of obstacles, with nails sticking out and mutual mimicry of sharp angles of boards and pointed shadows, separating me from the book I would like to write.
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Its really a shame that he only kept it up for the two months. But I suspect the time put into writing it irritated him. Why write about what he had to do, when he could do some of it in the same time frame? I suspect his impatient nature took over. :D
 
There is btw, a very interesting little item that has been put out, called Lectures on Literature (lectures by Nabokov) Edited by Fredson Bowers, with an introduction by John Updike. The front cover states:

Timeless discussions of Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Joyce, Proust, and others
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FYI......:cool:
 
Well I will get Pnin finished tomorrow more than likely, and a re-read on Saturday...

So, what we reading next then? :D
 
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