After he throws a faculty party, he is informed that he is about to lose his position at Waindell College, and the narrator glimpses him leaving town.
This character returns a book to the library on February 15, forgetting that it is his birthday. His childhood sweetheart, Mira, died in a concentration camp. He buys a soccer ball for his son Victor, who gives him an elegant bowl; that son's mother is his ex-wife, the flighty psychotherapist Liza, who had left him for Dr. Eric Wind. After he throws a faculty party, he is informed that he is about to lose his position at Waindell College, and the narrator glimpses him leaving town. However, he later appears on the faculty of Wordsmith College in Pale Fire, another work by his creator. FTP, name this title figure of a 1957 Vladimir Nabokov novel about a Russian professor.
This character returns a book to the library on February 15, forgetting that it is his birthday.
{Timofey} {Pnin} (from Pnin) (accept either underlined name)