Status Updates From Pnin

I can’t say I’m enjoying it. Maybe I just don’t like the sentimentality, which for me borders on bathos. I remember Lolita being painted with a much more delicate touch. I’ll probably reread that soon to reevaluate (as well as Pale Fire). To be honest, Nabokov just doesn’t seem like an author I’ll like, which is probably why I’m only just now getting to his other books.

it’s like reading a book about dear zane, if he were an older, slightly duller and more eccentric, russian professor!

I read so much of this tonight on my phone in between sets at a metal show, trying to angle my screen so all the cool people would know that I wasn’t doomscrolling but reading a very cool classic novel.

We must protect Professor Pnin at all costs.

The voice in this is out of this world.

non so perché abbia voluto concludere con questo "equivalente mentale di un cattivo sapore in bocca". la prima volta che l'ho letto, VVN mi era parso più ingombrante di come lo sia davvero in questo capitolo brevissimo. Cosa resta di vero, quando chi narra ci dice, per bocca del candido Pnin, di essere un bugiardo? Cosa importa?

è un personaggio che si fatica a lasciar andare, Pnin, con la sua berlina azzurra...