Here’s an older Nabokov talking about the best American novels: I show you this to get a sense of his voice and his mannerisms. In this short novel, we are introduced to a Russian professor named Timofey Pnin, who immigrated to the US to teach at a small liberal arts college in New England in the 1940s. The novel starts off with Pnin getting a train to report to a conference where he has been enlisted to give a talk. In a way not unlike To […]