Pnin Author:Vladimir Nabokov Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov — "It is hilariously funny and of a sadness..." — GRAHAM GREENE — "....[Nabokov] turns out to be a master of English prose-the most extraordinary phenomenon of the kind since Conrad...[He is] something like Proust, something like Franz Kafka, and, probably, something like Gogo!...[but he] is as completely himself as any of th... more »ese other writers..." EDMUND WILSON
"How to describe it or its effects? I'll settle for profoundly delightful, because under the wonderful and hilarious comedy, which any academic in, there is a deep pathos that takes us out of all academies into the befuddled sufferings of humanity at large...I honestly haven't enjoyed a novel so much in a long time."