Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov Paul Silverentand maar in de prachtige vertaling

maar in de prachtige vertaling van Wim Hartog is het evengoed een onderdompeling in de schoonheid van de Nederlandse taal

Niet in staat de kwestie uit zijn hoofd te zetten

willekeur en toeval die mensenlevens bepalen

Ovid's witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek and Roman myths and legends in which men and women are transformed

Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov Paul Silverentand maar in de prachtige vertalingProfessor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world: the ruination of his beautiful lumber room as office; the removal of his teeth and the fitting of new ones; the search for a suitable boarding house; and the trials of taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has yet to master. Wry,