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47 - Avuncular Bumbler: Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin
Books of Some Substance
English - January 27, 2020 21:05 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MB - ★★★★ - 61 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture Philosophy book bulgakov bellow books classics fiction hesse hurston kawabata lewis Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: 46 - Turpitude Dude: Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading
What’s the deal with how choppy this Nabokov book is? Is the character of Pnin actually the target of a faculty conspiracy? Or is the real conspiracy the fact that David is secretly employed as a salesman for the word-a-day industry? Join Nick, Nathan, and David for another rousing discussion on Vladimir Nabokov, this time on the (sometimes) beloved Pnin. And don’t worry, even if they may be a bit critical, many a failed attempt at reading Nabokov passages out loud proves who the real master is. Dude’s got some killer words in his employ, amirite?