Enrique Murillo Knihy

One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator. Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader’s deepest protective instinct. Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity.

Porn freak and jetsetter, John Self, is the shameless heir to a fast-food culture where money beats out an invitation to futile self-gratification. Out in New York, mingling with the mighty, Self is embroiled in the corruption, the brutality and the obscenity of the money conspiracy.

Sú ich tisíce. Naivných, obyčajných, dobre vyzerajúcich mladých žien, ktoré si myslia, že sa zbavia priemernosti, každodennej tvrdej driny a budú žiť ako hviezda prvej veľkosti. Žiť americký sen podľa obrázkových časopisov, dnes aj podľa televíznej reklamy. Veď to vyzerá tak jednoducho - dostať sa na vrchol. Treba prekonať len pár prekážok, trochu sa pokoriť, trochu klamať, občas robiť niečo nie celkom fér, ale potom príde nádherný život celkom podľa predlohy z časopisu. Všetko ide ľahko, ľahúčko a už už sa sen naplní. Truman Capote zachytáva vo svojej novele Raňajky u Tiffanyho jeden taký pokus mladej dievčiny Holly Golightlyovej.

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