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The Luzhin Defense (Penguin Modern Classics) Book

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.Read More

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  • Foyles

    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'.

  • BookDepository

    The Luzhin Defense : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780141185989 : 0141185988 : 31 Mar 2009 : 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.

  • Penguin

    Nabokov said of his chess-playing genius Luzhin, that despite his coarseness and grubby plainness, he is a lovable creation. Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood, rising to the rank of international Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess that renders the real world a phantom.

  • Pickabook

    Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, Michael Scammell (Trans)

  • 0141185988
  • 9780141185989
  • Vladimir Nabokov
  • 5 November 2009
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 192
  • Re-issue
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