In this wry, judiciously balanced, and thoroughly engaging book, Galya Diment explores the complicated and fascinating relationship between Vladimir Nabokov and his Cornell colleague Marc Szeftel who, in the estimate of many, served as the prototype for the gentle protagonist of the novel Pnin. She offers astute comments on Nabokov's fictional process in creating Timogey Pnin and addresses hotly debated questions and long-standing riddles in Pnin and its history. Between the two of them, Nabokov and Szeftel embodied much ...
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In this wry, judiciously balanced, and thoroughly engaging book, Galya Diment explores the complicated and fascinating relationship between Vladimir Nabokov and his Cornell colleague Marc Szeftel who, in the estimate of many, served as the prototype for the gentle protagonist of the novel Pnin. She offers astute comments on Nabokov's fictional process in creating Timogey Pnin and addresses hotly debated questions and long-standing riddles in Pnin and its history. Between the two of them, Nabokov and Szeftel embodied much of the complexity and variety of the Russian postrevolution emigre experience in Europe and the United States. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and diaries as well as on interview with family, friends, and collegues, Diment illuminates a fascinating cultural terrain. Pniniad --the epic of Pnin--begins with Szeftel's early life in Russia and ends with his years in Seattle at the University of Washington, turning pivotally upon the time in Szeftel's and Nabokov's lives intersected at Cornell. Nabokov apparantly was both amused by and admiring of the innocence of his historian friend. Szeftel's feelings towards Nabokov were also mixed, raning from intense disappointment over rebuffed attempts to collaborate with Nabokov to persistent envy of Nabokov's success and an increasing wistfulness over his own sense of failure.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ jacket. First edition, 1997, hardcover with black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 202pp., illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with mild edgewear to boards and spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG+ with price and ink line in isbn bar on rear panel, otherwise fine in protective mylar wrap.
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Very well written and researched story of the model for Pnin, Marc Szeftel, whose tragedy was to be obsessed with Nabokov, his former colleague at Cornell University. Szeftel was a respected scholar in his own right, though lacking the glamor and special gifts of the great novelist.
