The Luzhin Defense
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN-10
0141185988
ISBN-13
9780141185989
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint
Penguin Classics
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 29th, 2000
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
150 grams
Dimensions
19.80 x 13.10 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)Fiction in translation
Ksh 1,800.00
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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''.
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