Name: The Luzhin Defense (Penguin Modern Classics) (in English)
Price: 19.41 USD
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Author: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780141185989

portada The Luzhin Defense (Penguin Modern Classics) (in English)

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Physical Book

Publisher

Penguin Books

Author

Vladimir Nabokov

Synopsis "The Luzhin Defense (Penguin Modern Classics) (in English)"

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'.