Pnin

This structure of narrative reminded another account of Nabokov's Pnin, in which the narration is circular. That the end of the novel connects back to beginning of the novel. The beginning portrayed Pnin, a Russian professor emigrated to the U.S. during the 1920, on his way to deliver a lecture at Cremona College but was on the wrong train; the end of the novel depicted that, after Pnin has been fired from his department, his former colleagues recounted between themselves the story of him boarding the wrong train as an laughing anecdote.

Not only the structure of storytelling that lasted me an impression. The image of Pnin lived vividly. As he unknowningly sat on the wrong train, the narrator described Pnin with words such as "apish uppder lip, thick neck", "spindley legs" and "frail looking, almost feminine feet".