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The Luzhin Defense

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The Luzhin Defense Synopsis

Vladimir Nabokov's early novel is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet oddly endearing chess-playing genius Luzhin. Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of International Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess that renders the real world a phantom. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster Turati, he brings into play his carefully devised defence. Making masterly play of metaphor and imagery, The Luzhin Defense is the book that, of his early works, Nabokov felt 'contains and diffuses the greatest warmth'.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780141185989
Publication date: 29th June 2000
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 192 pages
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Genres: Classics
Translated Fiction