'Aesthetic bliss' in the shape of Nabokov's hapless Timofey Pavlovich Pnin - misunderstood, bewildered but unfailingly dignified and the antithesis of Lolita's Humbert Humbert. Pnin was first serialised by The New Yorker in 1953 before being published in 1957 Try Abebooks for new and used copies |