Phantom of Fact: A Guide to Nabokov's Pnin

by Gennady Barabtarlo

This guide to Pnin, written by the co-translator with Vera Nabokov of the Russian version of Pnin, covers the text's genesis, characters, structure, principal themes and narrative features.

314 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1989

About the author

Gennady Barabtarlo was professor of literature at the University of Missouri and the author of a number of books on Nabokov. Barabtarlo also translated into Russian three of Nabokov’s novels and all of his English-language short stories.