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The Defense

Vladimir Nabokov

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#3292 of 8,085 books · #1631 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (1965).

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'.

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Publisher
Penguin UK
ISBN-13
9780718192891
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Obsession and geniusChessMental illness

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