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The Luzhin Defense

The Luzhin Defense

Name: The Luzhin Defense
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780141185989

Vladimir Nabokov

29/06/2000
Penguin Classics

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Luzhin Defense par Vladimir Nabokov

Résumé

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'.