TY  - BOOK
AU  - Diment,Galya
TI  - Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel 
SN  - 9780295801087
AV  - PS3527 .P556 1997
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Seattle
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich,
KW  - Szeftel, Marc.
KW  - Cornell University
KW  - Biography
KW  - Russian Americans
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - Ithaca
KW  - College teachers
KW  - Russians in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - "A McLellan book."; 2; Marc Szeftel's odyssey : an alien and an exile --; Colleagues and collaborators : Szeftel and Nabokov at Cornell --; Pnin --; Szeftel in search of success : Lolita --; Life after Nabokov; 2; b
N2  - 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 Timofey Pnin and addresses hotly debated questions and long-standing riddles in Pnin and its history. 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 when Szeftel's and Nabokov's lives intersected at Cornell. Nabokov apparently was both amused by and admiring of the innocence of his historian friend. Szeftel's feelings toward Nabokov were also mixed, ranging from intense disappointment over rebuffed attempts to collaborate with Nabokov on a scholarly study (of a medieval Russian epic) or to write about his work (Lolita), to persistent envy of Nabokov's success and an increasing wistfulness over his own sense of failure. A generous selection of relevant archival materials includes Szeftel's autobiographical writings, his talks and published essays relating to Nabokov, and his correspondence with Nabokov and Roman Jakobson
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