The Luzhin Defense
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Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of International Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmast...
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Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of International Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster Turati, he brings into play his carefully devised defence. 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''.
Detaljer
Forlag
Penguin Classics
ISBN
9780141185989
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
192
Udgivelsesdato
29-06-2000
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
1651916
EAN nr.
9780141185989
Varegruppe
Fiction
Højde/Dybde (mm)
131
Bredde (mm)
198
Længde (mm)
13
Vægt (g)
150