The Luzhin Defense: Vladimir Nabokov (Penguin Modern Classics)

The Luzhin Defense: Vladimir Nabokov (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Michael Scammell (Translator), Michael Scammell (Translator), Vladimir Nabokov (Author)

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'.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: 1
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 29 Jun 2000

ISBN 10: 0141185988
ISBN 13: 9780141185989

Author Bio
Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most famously, Lolita. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian emigre writers. He died in 1977.