6/30/2023 0 Comments Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov![]() Listeners will be left wishing Rudnicki had infused more of his narration with those qualities. His rendition of the title character-which sounds like a hybrid of Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat and Soviet comedian Yakov Smirnoff-is dynamic and entertaining. He does, however, provide a wide range of voices for the cast of characters. This has been a constant since I was 17, when I discovered both almost simultaneously. Instead, Rudnicki's tone is variously stiff, needlessly booming, or monotone. If you ask me my favourite author, I would probably give you two names: Will Self and Vladimir Nabokov. Rudnicki's narration is clear and steady, but fails to capture the playfulness of Nabokov's prose and the humor of the text. ![]() ![]() Told in a series of vignettes, the story follows Russian immigrant and professor Timofey Pavlovich Pnin as he boards the wrong train on his way to deliver a lecture, loses his luggage, struggles with the English language, hunts for living quarters, deals with his ex-wife, and throws a faculty party. Nabokov fans will be disappointed by narrator Stefan Rudnicki's stiff, staid performance in this audio version of the author's 13th novel. ![]()
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