LEADER 04756nam 22008293u 450 001 9910956675303321 005 20240418051742.0 010 $a9780295801087 010 $a0295801085 035 $a(CKB)3710000000072221 035 $a(EBL)3444558 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001060171 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11668651 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001060171 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11086528 035 $a(PQKB)11350935 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444558 035 $a(DE-B1597)726231 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780295801087 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000072221 100 $a20151116d1997|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPniniad $eVladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aSeattle $cUniversity of Washington Press$d1997 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 225 0 $aMcLellan Endowed Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780295976341 311 08$a0295976349 327 $a""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction ""; ""Chapter 1. Marc Szeftel's Odyssey: An Alien and an Exile""; ""Chapter 2. Colleagues and Collaborators: Szeftel and Nabokov at Cornell ""; ""Chapter 3. Pnin""; ""Chapter 4. Szeftel in Search of Success: Lolita""; ""Chapter 5. Life After Nabokov""; ""Conclusion""; ""Appendixes: From Marc Szeftel's Archive and Writings""; ""Appendix 1: Szeftel's ""Intellectual Autobiography"" ""; ""Appendix 2: Correspondence with Vladimir Nabokov and Roman Jakobson""; ""Appendix 3: Nabokov in Szeftel's Diaries""; ""Appendix 4: Szeftel's Papers on Lolita"" 327 $a""Notes""""Bibliography""; ""Index"" 330 $aIn 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 Drawing on previously unpublished letters and diaries as well as on interview with family, friends, and collegues, Diment illuminates a fascinating cultural terrain.Pniniad--the epic of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. 606 $aCollege teachers -- New York (State) -- Ithaca -- Biography 606 $aCornell University -- Biography 606 $aNabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, -- 1899-1977 -- Friends and associates 606 $aNabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, -- 1899-1977. -- Pnin 606 $aRussian Americans -- New York (State) -- Ithaca -- Biography 606 $aRussians in literature 606 $aSzeftel, Marc 606 $aRussian Americans$xBiography$zIthaca$zNew York (State) 606 $aCollege teachers$xBiography$zIthaca$zNew York (State) 606 $aRussians in literature 606 $aEnglish$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aAmerican Literature$2HILCC 615 4$aCollege teachers -- New York (State) -- Ithaca -- Biography. 615 4$aCornell University -- Biography. 615 4$aNabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, -- 1899-1977 -- Friends and associates. 615 4$aNabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, -- 1899-1977. -- Pnin. 615 4$aRussian Americans -- New York (State) -- Ithaca -- Biography. 615 4$aRussians in literature. 615 4$aSzeftel, Marc. 615 0$aRussian Americans$xBiography 615 0$aCollege teachers$xBiography 615 0$aRussians in literature. 615 7$aEnglish 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aAmerican Literature 676 $a813.54 700 $aDiment$b Galya$01124615 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910956675303321 996 $aPniniad$94451402 997 $aUNINA