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  The Luzhin Defense (Paperback) By (author) Vladimir Nabokov, Afterword by John Updike, Translated by Michael Scammell

  

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  Short Description for The Luzhin DefenseDiscovering 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.
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  • Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
  • Published: 29 June 2000
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics | Fiction In Translation
  • ISBN 13: 9780141185989 ISBN 10: 0141185988
  • Sales rank: 124,865

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Full description for The Luzhin Defense

• 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'.